Jonathan Edwards may refer to:
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of His suffering or humiliation; whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of His obedience or righteousness.
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.