If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
Jonathan EdwardsThe beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
Jonathan EdwardsResolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
Jonathan EdwardsMen will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
Jonathan EdwardsA 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.
Jonathan Edwards