Quotes by Jonathan Edwards

• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
• True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
• The strongest people are not the ones who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.