Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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

New Year's, God, Live

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Jonathan Edwards

Grace, Glory, Begun

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

Travel, Hard, Heaven

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

Religion, Men, Down

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards

Life, Faith, Prayer

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

Happiness, God, Creature

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

Music, Best, Beautiful

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

Friendship, God, Heart

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

Power, True, Liberty

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

God, Enjoy, Here

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

Nothing, Cause, Pass

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: October 5, 1703

Died: March 22, 1758

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