Jonathan Edwards Quotes - Page 3

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

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.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness