55 Best Jonathan Edwards Quotes From The American Theologian And Philosopher
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Jonathan Edwards was born on 5 October 1703, and has been recognized for many important and originally developed philosophical ideas.
Jonathan Edwards played an important role in the upcoming awakening of society, things that may not have happened without him. Edwards has been well renowned as a man for his various works such as 'Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God', 'Charity And Its Fruits' and 'The Freedom Of The Will'.
Jonathan Edwards' works were famous among classic literature. He very carefully summed up his work about beauty, harmony, and ethics.
They shed light on the truth and help you choose better and do better. They awaken the best part of you, for both self-benefit as well as the benefit of society. There are quotes on revival, they can help you re-shape your thoughts and beliefs in a better direction.
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Jonathan Edwards Quotes About God's Grace
Everything is mesmerized by God's blessing. Here are a few Jonathan Edwards quotations on grace and glory.
1. "All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean."
- Jonathan Edwards.
2. "God is the highest good of the reasonable creature."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'True Christian's Life'.
3. "O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'The Life And Diary Of David Brainerd'.
4. "Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my sin, and refine me seven times."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'The Life And Diary Of David Brainerd'.
5. "The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!"
- Jonathan Edwards.
6. "We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself."
- Jonathan Edwards.
7. "Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'The Life and Diary Of David Brainerd'.
8. "All our good is more apparently from God because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good."
- Jonathan Edwards.
9. "Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life."
- Jonathan Edwards.
10. "When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'The Duty Of Prayer'.
11. "Faith abases men and exalts God; it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'God Glorified In Man's Dependence'.
12. "Nature is God's greatest evangelist."
- Jonathan Edwards.
13. "Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'The Religious Affections'.
Famous Jonathan Edwards Quotes For Inspiration
A daily dose of inspiration is the best for a productive day at work. Here are a few inspiring Jonathan Edwards quotes that would never fail to make your day full of grace.
14. "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
- Jonathan Edwards.
15. "How can you expect to dwell with God forever if you so neglect and forsake him here?"
- Jonathan Edwards, 'Hypocrites Deficient In'.
16. "Greatest concern is not for your health or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though"
- Jonathan Edwards.
17. "The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts."
- Jonathan Edwards.
18."Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."
- Jonathan Edwards.
19. "Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important."
- Jonathan Edwards.
20. "That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'Freedom Of The Will'.
21. "A man never, in any instance, wills anything contrary to his desires, or desires anything contrary to his Will."
-Jonathan Edwards.
22. "For the very notion of the hardness of heart implies moral inability."
- Jonathan Edwards.
23. "Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important."
- Jonathan Edwards.
24. "Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better."
- Jonathan Edwards.
25. "Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die."
- Jonathan Edwards.
26. "He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good sees the greatest and most important thing in the world."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'Religious Affections'.
27. "Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'Religious Affections'.
28. "Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence."
- Jonathan Edwards.
29. "Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'Religious Affections'.
30. "Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being."
-Jonathan Edwards.
31. "From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'Religious Affections'.
32. "To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it."
-Jonathan Edwards.
33. "The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being."
-Jonathan Edwards.
Great Quotes From Jonathan Edwards For Religion
Religion is the basis of a healthy faith in God. A few quotes by Jonathan Edwards are about Christ's return, and others are about Jonathan Edwards quotes on prayer. These glory of God quotes showcase his beliefs in God or Jesus Christ.
34. "You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary."
- Jonathan Edwards.
35. "To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here."
- Jonathan Edwards.
36. "Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility."
- Jonathan Edwards.
37. "When God is about to do a mighty new thing he always sets His people praying."
- Jonathan Edwards.
38. "Christians are spoken of as those "that have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'The Religious Affections'.
39. "The present state is short and transitory, but our state in the other world is everlasting."
- Jonathan Edwards, 'The Christian Pilgrim'.
40. "I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early."
-Jonathan Edwards.
41. "He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid."
-Jonathan Edwards.
42. "If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked."
-Jonathan Edwards.
43. "Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people."
-Jonathan Edwards.
44. "The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'The Peace That Christ Gives'.
45. "The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God."
-Jonathan Edwards.
46. "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs."
-Jonathan Edwards.
47. "Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven."
-Jonathan Edwards, 'Charity And Its Fruits'.
48. "No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety."
-Jonathan Edwards.
49. "Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell."
-Jonathan Edwards.
Jonathan Edwards Quotes On Hell
These quotes may be a bit bold, but they are great teachings. These are Jonathan Edwards 'Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God' quotes.
50. "Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering."
- Jonathan Edwards.
51. "You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell."
- Jonathan Edwards.
52. "It is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell..."
- Jonathan Edwards.
53. "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."
- Jonathan Edwards.
54. "The Devil stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it."
- Jonathan Edwards.
55. "I resolve to endeavor to my utmost to act and think as if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell."
- Jonathan Edwards.
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