“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”1
“Grace is but Glory begun, and Glory is but Grace perfected.”
“A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.”
“Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.”
“If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.”
“I had then, and at other times, the greatest delight in the Holy Scriptures, of any book whatsoever. Oftentimes in reading it, every word seemed to touch my heart. I felt a harmony between something in my heart, and those sweet and powerful words. I seemed often to see so much light exhibited by every sentence, and such a refreshing food communicated, that I could not get along in reading; often dwelling long on one sentence, to see the wonders contained in it; and yet almost every sentence seemed to be full of wonders.”
“There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.”
“Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.”
“The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.”
“Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.”
“He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.”
“A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.”
“He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.”
“Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.”
“A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.”
“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”
“He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.”
“If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.”
“Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.”
“All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.”
“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.”
“Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God’s glory.”
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites:
39 Jonathan Edwards Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
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Jonathan Edwards (120+ Sourced Quotes) – Lib Quotes
Jonathan Edwards Quotes – Dailyversesbytopic.com
Top 160 Jonathan Edwards Quotes (2025 Update) – QuoteFancy
Jonathan Edwards Quotes (Author of The Religious Affections)
Thank you for sharing these gems brother Curt 🙏