Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain. Jonathan Edwards More Quotes by Jonathan Edwards More Quotes From Jonathan Edwards All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind. Jonathan Edwards mind heart mean God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. Jonathan Edwards glory Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. Jonathan Edwards lasts inspiring life If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One. Jonathan Edwards hypocrisy heart lying Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. Jonathan Edwards soul exercise heart 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. Jonathan Edwards holiness soul sweet We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. Jonathan Edwards giving jesus christ The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us. Jonathan Edwards strong blow wind He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. Jonathan Edwards holiness important world Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's. Jonathan Edwards my-own christian way Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God. Jonathan Edwards gratitude greatness discovery true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better. Jonathan Edwards affliction sight world I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own. Jonathan Edwards eye feet hands 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 prejudice heaven travel That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost. Jonathan Edwards feet letting-go fall Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others. Jonathan Edwards sovereign grace giving The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed? Jonathan Edwards glorifying-god glory might Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. Jonathan Edwards glory grace The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. Jonathan Edwards inward delight humility Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings. Jonathan Edwards selfish powerful fall
