Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
wonder hell reason
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
inspiring music beautiful
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
love-is soul ingredients
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
humility views essentials
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
christian humility devil
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
christian practice evidence
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
travel heaven prejudice
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
way moments loses
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
humility inward delight
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
hypocrite men discovery
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 tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
lord eternity eyeballs
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
sweet differences honey
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
men pits rotten
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
lovely holiness delight
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.