Jonathan Edwards

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.

The incomprehensibility of God’s person and works should never be a cause for doubt, but a catalyst for wonder. Why should we marvel at that which is small enough to be encompassed by or encaged in a finite human mind?

Our joy isn’t rooted in our circumstances; it is rooted in the eternal and unchangingly good God who loves us and keeps us.

Men’s hands cannot be strong when God rises up. The strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands.

In reformed church services reverence is exalted, and rightly so, but never should it be so at the expense of rejoicing. Sadly, many of us behave more like Pharisees in our worship (Luke 19:37-40). Rejoice, church!

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Resolved, constantly, with the utmost niceness and diligence, and the strictest scrutiny, to be looking into the state of my soul.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Pride often creeps insensibly into the midst of religion, even, sometimes, under the disguise of humility itself!

Pride is the most hidden, secret, and deceitful of all lusts!

Pride is the greatest disturber of the soul's peace, and of sweet communion with Christ.

Pride is the worst viper in the human heart!

All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love.

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in! O sinner! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit.

The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints.

There's no way that Saints, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God & advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

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Resolved, to inquire every night, wherein I have been negligent, what sin I have committed, and wherein I have denied myself.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Resolved, never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.