Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

• He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Needs, Christ

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830). “Seventeen occasional sermons. Miscellaneous observations”, p.357

• It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Mean, Ezekiel

• 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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  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”

• If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Way, Christ, Vain

  Jonathan Edwards (1793). “History of Redemption, on a Plan Entirely Original: Exhibiting the Gradual Discovery and Accomplishment of the Divine Purposes in the Salvation of Man, Including a Comprehensive View of Church History and the Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecies”, p.354

• I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Two, Giving

• Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1974). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”

• Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Broken, Giving

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.9, Reformation Heritage Books

• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Mean, Successful

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

• In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Children, Eye, Blood

  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.152

• We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, Giving, Christ

  Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.172

• Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Sake, Helping

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.68

• True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Indifference, Foe

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, People, Wicked

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Needs, Christ

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Justified, Christ, Righteousness

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Doors, Christ, Mercy

• If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Revenge, Doe, Denial

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Long, Christ, Walks

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Light, Mind, World

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

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Redemption

• There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Prayer, Kingdoms

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.426

• Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Self, Followers

• If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Fall, Men, Thinking

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III”, Lulu.com

• What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Eye, Angel

  Jonathan Edwards, American Tract Society (184?). “A History of the Work of Redemption: Comprising an Outline of Church History”

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