Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
soul benefits sake
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.
world without-god
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
happy god new-year
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
desire ease pleasure
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
mother children husband
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.
christian fighting soldier
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
sin salvation made
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
needs christ
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
men wicked hell
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
men hell natural
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
heart exercise soul
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.
heart exercise light
But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.