So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.
Jonathan EdwardsTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
Jonathan EdwardsOne requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
Jonathan Edwardstrue weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
Jonathan EdwardsWhether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.
Jonathan Edwards