Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Biography: Jonathan Edwards is known for his distinctive contributions as an Amer... more Biography: Jonathan Edwards is known for his distinctive contributions as an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and theologian in the 18th century. Born in 1703, he played a significant role in the First Great Awakening, emphasizing the importance of personal religious experience. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a hallmark of American religious history. less

"The spirit of true prayer is no other than God's spirit within us""The soul of a true Christian appears like a little white flower""Heaven is a world of love""Christ has brought us into a new kind of dependence""God gives us more grace when we walk in his will""To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better""Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing""When God created the world, he had respect to himself""God is the highest good of the reasonable creature""True virtue must chiefly consist in love to God""Religion consists very much in holy affection""The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness""The created universe is but a dream of the mind existing in the mind of God""As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness""A true, saving faith is measured not by the measure of confidence, but by this, that it be a purifying, working, and causing faith""Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life""Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is that causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God""Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach""The entrance into heaven is not at the end of this life""Christ's holiness and his perfect obedience were thus imputed to believers."

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