Quotes by Jonathan Edwards

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun.
– Jonathan Edwards
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
– Jonathan Edwards
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
– Jonathan Edwards
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
– Jonathan Edwards
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
– Jonathan Edwards
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.
– Jonathan Edwards
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
– Jonathan Edwards
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.
– Jonathan Edwards
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.
– Jonathan Edwards
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
– Jonathan Edwards
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.
– Jonathan Edwards