Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Thinking, Hell

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.69

• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Real, Cures

• Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Beautiful, Pain, Love Life

  "The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature". Notebook by Jonathan Edwards, "The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), 1948.

• 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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