Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

God's purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God's glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

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.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?