Jonathan Edwards
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.Collection: Heart
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.Collection: Leader
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.Collection: Sweet
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.Collection: Gratitude
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by actionCollection: Self
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.Collection: Two
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.Collection: Christian
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.Collection: Godly
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.Collection: Humility
Men 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.Collection: Exercise
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetnessCollection: Sweet
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actionsCollection: Action
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.Collection: Wish
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.Collection: Christian
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.Collection: Way
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.Collection: Hypocrite
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.Collection: Affection
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.Collection: Christian
The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.Collection: Strong
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.Collection: Grace
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.Collection: Justified
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.Collection: Spring
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.Collection: Christian
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.Collection: Gratitude
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.Collection: Spirit
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.Collection: Blessing
Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.Collection: Light
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Ideas
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.Collection: Soul
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?Collection: Lying
When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.Collection: Giving
The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.Collection: Christian
We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.Collection: Redemption
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.Collection: Lying
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.Collection: Men
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.Collection: Years
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.Collection: Way
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.Collection: Life
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.Collection: Jesus
Trust in God and ye need not fear.Collection: Needs
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.Collection: People
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.Collection: Love Is
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.Collection: Jesus
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.Collection: Revenge
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.Collection: Christian
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.Collection: Hands
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.Collection: Revenge