Jonathan Edwards

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

— Jonathan Edwards

#doctrine #religion #theology #business

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

— Jonathan Edwards

#does #else #god #i #live

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#hypocrisy

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#love

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#education

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

#jesus-christ #preachers #puritans #revivalist #nature

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#god #trust #faith

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

#consists #constrained #doing #liberty #only

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

— Jonathan Edwards

#cause #comes #ever #i #nothing

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

— Jonathan Edwards

#expression #faith #life #natural #prayer