Jonathan Edwards Quotes

"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Faith, Life, Expression, Prayer)

"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: God, Resolution, Will)

"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Friendship, God, Heart, Being, Desire, Prayer)

"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Music, Mind)

"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Happiness, God)

"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."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Travel, Content, Heaven)

"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."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Men, Religion, Morality, Righteousness)

"To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: God, Heaven)

"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Glory, Grace)

"True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will."
- Jonathan Edwards
(Related: Power, Being, Liberty, Will)