Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Agreement, Ideas, Religion

  Jonathan Edwards (2009). “The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Reality, Self

• All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Grace, Together

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.131, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Lovely, Gold

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.236

• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

• We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Views, Essentials

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.153, David C Cook

• Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Redemption

• We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Believe, Light

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