Jonathan Edwards
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.Collection: Friendship
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.Collection: New
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.Collection: Happiness
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.Collection: Faith
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.Collection: Travel
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
True 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.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.Collection: Christian
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.Collection: Sin
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?Collection: Forever
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.Collection: Christian
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.Collection: People
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.Collection: Mother
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.Collection: Soul
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.Collection: Soul
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.Collection: Light
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.Collection: Important
A 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.Collection: Distance
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.Collection: Spiritual
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.Collection: Sweet
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.Collection: Agreement
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.Collection: Needs
Nature is God's greatest evangelist.Collection: Evangelists
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’Collection: Doors
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.Collection: World
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian lifeCollection: Christian
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.Collection: Christian
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.Collection: Christian
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.Collection: Long
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.Collection: God
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.Collection: Lovely
True 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 willCollection: Liberty
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.Collection: Helping
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.Collection: Selfishness
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.Collection: Pain
To live with all my might, while I do liveCollection: Might
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.Collection: Christian
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.Collection: Heart
The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Lying
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.Collection: Children
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.Collection: Mountain
As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.Collection: Spiritual
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.Collection: Degrees
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.Collection: Thinking
There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.Collection: Space