Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

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.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

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.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

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.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.