(I am) resolved, never to do anything which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
– Jonathan Edwards –
Jonathan Edwards
January 19, 2014
. . . let not your heart go after the things of this world, as your chief good. Indulge not yourself in the possession of earthly things as though they were to satisfy your soul. This is the reverse of seeking heaven; it is to go in a way contrary to that which leads to the world of love. If you would seek heaven, your affections must be taken off from the pleasures of the world. You must not allow yourself in sensuality, or worldliness, or the pursuit of the enjoyments or honors of the world, or occupy your thoughts or time in heaping up the dust of the earth. You must mortify the desires of vain-glory, and become poor in spirit and lowly in heart.
– Jonathan Edwards –
January 18, 2014
That which was in the heart on earth as but a grain of mustard-seed, shall be as a great tree in heaven. The soul that in this world had only a little spark of divine love in it, in heaven shall be, as it were, turned into a bright and ardent flame, like the sun in its fullest brightness, when it has no spot upon it. In heaven there shall be no remaining enmity, or distaste, or coldness, or deadness of heart towards God and Christ.
– Jonathan Edwards –
January 17, 2014
. . . God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven, fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light. The apostle tells us that “God is love;” and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love. Seeing he is an all sufficient being, it follows that he is a full and over-flowing, and inexhaustible fountain of love. And in that he is an unchangeable and eternal being, he is an unchangeable and eternal fountain of love.
– Jonathan Edwards –
October 16, 2013
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
August 17, 2013
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
– Jonathan Edwards –
June 20, 2013
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
– Jonathan Edwards –
April 3, 2013
A man must first love God or have his heart united to him, before he will esteem God’s good his own, and before he will desire the glorifying, and enjoying of God as his happiness.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
March 31, 2013
God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.
– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections