Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Blessing, Giving

• 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 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

• Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Grace, Sovereign

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.854

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Matter, Lasts

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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