Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

We can't be saved without being good, but 'tis not because our goodness is sufficient, or can do anything of itself. But 'tis because all whose hearts come to Christ will be good, and if men ben't good, their hearts never will come to Christ.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

The door of God's mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners 'Come.'

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.