Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 October 1703
CountryUnited States of America
might
To live with all my might, while I do live
rocks healthy spiders
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.
sweet world consent
The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
pain real cures
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
christian proud absurdity
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
blessing order church
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.
pain thinking hell
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
degrees certain piety
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
mean order grace
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
needs trust-in-god
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
lying influence creation
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?
lying heart hypocrisy
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
lying alive body
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
light perfection excellence
Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.