Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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Jonathan Edwards

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : October 5, 1703

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

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.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Jonathan Edwards

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

Jonathan Edwards

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Edwards