Edwards [Jonathan Edwards] calls the deeper, primary form of thankfulness “gracious gratitude.” It gives thanks not for goods received, but for who God is: for His character—His goodness, love, power, excellencies—regardless of favors received. And it’s real evidence of the Holy Spirit working in a person’s life.
– Chuck Colson –
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility, and so prepares the mind for true divine light without darkness, and so clears the eye to look on things as they truly are.
– Jonathan Edwards –
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Resolved, whenever I hear anything spoken in commendation of any person, if I think it would be praiseworthy in me, that I will endeavor to imitate it.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Resolved: that all men should live for the glory of God.
Resolved second: That whether others do or not, I will.
– Jonathan Edwards –
A true love to God must begin with a delight in His holiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
1709-1758 AD
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
– Jonathan Edwards –
As some are mistaken concerning the nature of true boldness for Christ, so they are concerning Christian zeal. ’Tis indeed a flame, but a sweet one; or rather it is the heat and fervor of a sweet flame. For the flame of which it is the heat, is no other than that of divine love, or Christian charity; which is the sweetest and most benevolent thing that is, or can be, in the heart of man or angel.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from Religious Affections
God will be most glorified when we not only behold His Glory, but delight in it. When they that behold, delight in it will God be more glorified than when they just see. His glory will be received by our whole soul, as well by the mind and the heart.
– Jonathan Edwards –