Jonathan Edwards Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
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“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”
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“God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”
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“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.”
-- Jonathan EdwardsSource : Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.162
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“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”
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“God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.”
-- Jonathan EdwardsSource : Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381
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“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
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“If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.”
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“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.”
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“Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.”
-- Jonathan EdwardsSource : Jonathan Edwards (2009). “The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”
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“There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.”
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“If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.”
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“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.”
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“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”
-- Jonathan EdwardsSource : Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1806). “The Works of President Edwards;: Life of President Edwards. Enquiry into the freedom of the will. A dissertation concering the end for which God created the world”, p.125
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“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
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“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
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“Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.”
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“As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.”
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“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
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“Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.”
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“Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.”
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“I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.”
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“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.”
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“The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.”
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“true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
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“A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.”
-- Jonathan EdwardsSource : Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.65, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
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“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”
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“From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.”
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