Jonathan Edwards Quotes

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

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.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

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.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

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.

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.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.