Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Ideas, Evil, Imagination

• 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

• The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.270

• Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Evil, Speak

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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