Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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• A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Fighting, Soldier

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• You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sin, Salvation, Made

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  How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

  Jonathan Edwards

  Forever, Neglect, Forsake

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Happy, God, New Year

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• It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Reality, Self

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• When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

  Jonathan Edwards

  People, Praying, New Things

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• God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381

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  The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Soul, Enjoyment, Satisfied

  Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381

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  Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Soul, Benefits, Sake

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.162

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• A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Distance, Humble, Blessing

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.65, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Important, Knowledge Of God

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1806). “The Works of President Edwards;: Life of President Edwards. Enquiry into the freedom of the will. A dissertation concering the end for which God created the world”, p.125

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• Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Light, Mind, World

  Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.169

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Blessing, Giving

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• He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Needs, Christ

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

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  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Evangelists

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  He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

  Jonathan Edwards

  World, Without God

  Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.388, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Glory

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• True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Abiding, Doe

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• He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Doe, Knows

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Kingdoms, Chiefs

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• Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eternity, Lord, Stamps

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• Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1974). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”

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• A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Sin, Gods Will

  Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.384, Hendrickson Publishers

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• God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Glory

  Jonathan Edwards (1955). “The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebooks”, Eugene, U. of Oregon

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