Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Jonathan Edwards

Sin, Salvation, Made

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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, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

Jonathan Edwards

Christian, Fighting, Soldier

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

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Happy, God, New Year

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

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Forever, Neglect, Forsake

Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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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.

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Christian, Reality, Self

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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

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People, Praying, New Things

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God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.

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Mother, Children, Husband

Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381

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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

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Soul, Enjoyment, Satisfied

Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381

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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

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Soul, Benefits, Sake

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.162

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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.

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Distance, Humble, Blessing

Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.65, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

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Important, Knowledge Of God

Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1806). “The Works of President Edwards;: Life of President Edwards. Enquiry into the freedom of the will. A dissertation concering the end for which God created the world”, p.125

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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

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Light, Mind, World

Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.169

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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

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Spiritual, Blessing, Giving

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Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

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Sweet, Lying, Heart

Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Jonathan Edwards

Needs, Christ

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Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

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Evangelists

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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

Jonathan Edwards

Christian, Way, My Own

Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830). “treatise concerning religious affections. Justification by faith alone. Pressing into the kingdom of God. Ruth's resolution. Justice of God in the damnation of sinners. The excellency of Jesus Christ”, p.71

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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

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World, Without God

Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.388, Hendrickson Publishers

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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

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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.

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Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Jonathan Edwards

Long, Christ, Walks

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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Jonathan Edwards

Eternity, Lord, Stamps

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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

Christian, Humility, Evil

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

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Doors, Christ, Mercy

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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

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Christian, Kingdoms, Chiefs

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Born: October 5, 1703
Died: March 22, 1758
Occupation: Preacher
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