Jonathan Edwards Quotes

• A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

  Jonathan Edwards

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• He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

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• 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.

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• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

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• 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

• 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

• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

  Jonathan Edwards

• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

  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.

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

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• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

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• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

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

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Birth:	5th October, 1703
Death:	22nd March, 1758
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Pastor, Theologian

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