Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eye, Hands, Feet

• One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Children, Understanding, Defects

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.475

• But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Light

  Jonathan Edwards (1845). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission”, p.18

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