That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.
Jonathan EdwardsChristian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
Jonathan EdwardsTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
Jonathan EdwardsTrue liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will
Jonathan EdwardsTrue virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.
Jonathan Edwards