Jonathan Edwards may refer to:
The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.
To live with all my might, while I do live
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
The pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive the wicked: the flames do now rage and glow. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. . . He will trample them beneath His feet with inexpressible fierceness; He will crush their blood out, and will make it fly, so that it will sprinkle His garment and stain all His raiment.
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider. . . abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.