Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual spring heart
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.
wonder hell reason
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
inspiring music beautiful
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
love-is soul ingredients
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
humility views essentials
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
christian humility devil
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
christian practice evidence
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
travel heaven prejudice
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.
way moments loses
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
humility inward delight
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
hypocrite men discovery
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
lord eternity eyeballs
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
heart exercise soul
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.
sweet differences honey
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness