Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

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

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

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

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

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.

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

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

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.

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

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.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

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

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

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.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

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

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

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.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

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.

Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

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

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.