Jonathan Edwards Quotes
"Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.""Spiritual pride is the main spring or at least the main support of all other errors.""Holiness, as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it, appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature.""There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and undying hope.""When God is about to break his silence, and come forth out of his place, he speaks out of free grace and love to his people.""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. The true Christian is a soldier of Christ, and he counts it his bounden duty to fight against the enemies of his soul, the world, the flesh, and the devil.""Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will""It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity; but by resembling Christ""God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in""Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us""You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary""Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs""The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied""The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.""He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.""Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.""The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?""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.""God glorifies Himself toward the creatures also in two ways: 1. By appearing to their understanding. 2. In communicating Himself to their hearts, and in their rejoicing and delighting in, and enjoying, the manifestations which He makes of Himself""True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections"
