Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Lovely, Gold

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.236

• Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, And Love, Virtue

• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Satisfaction, Merit

  "Works, Vol. 5". Book by Jonathan Edwards, E. Baines, p. 489, 1809.

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