A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Jonathan EdwardsThere are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christianโs love must be universal!
Jonathan EdwardsTo mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
Jonathan EdwardsThe 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.
Jonathan EdwardsHaste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
Jonathan EdwardsIf there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
Jonathan Edwards