By Jonathan Edwards
All the kings of the earth, before God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing.
Christ requires no money to purchase rest of him, he calls to us to come freely, and for nothing.
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.
Knowledge is pleasant and delightful to intelligent creatures, and above all the knowledge of divine things.
Christ is a refuge in all trouble; there is a foundation for rational support and peace in him, whatever threatens us.
Men are not saved on the account of any work of theirs, and yet they are not saved without works.
The sovereignty of God is his absolute, independent right of disposing of all creatures according to his own pleasure.
God is the great author of it. He is the first cause of it; and not only so, but he is the only proper cause. It is of God that we have our Redeemer. It is God that has provided a Saviour for us.
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
This spiritual light is the dawning of the light of glory in the heart.
Man hath so much the greater occasion and obligation to notice and acknowledge God’s perfections and all-sufficiency. The greater the creature’s dependence is on God’s perfections, and the greater concern he has with them, so much the greater occasion has he to take notice of them.
If you are but willing, you may freely come and unload yourselves, and cast all your burdens on Christ.
The blood of Christ is so precious, that it is fully sufficient to pay the debt you have contracted.
Reason’s work is to perceive truth and not excellency. It is not ratiocination that gives men the perception of the beauty and amiableness of a countenance.
God can save the greatest sinner without giving the least countenance to sin. If he saves one, who for a long time has stood out under the calls of the gospel, and has sinned under dreadful aggravations; if he saves one who, against light, has been a pirate or blasphemer, he may do it without giving any countenance to their wickedness.
Your mansion or place of abode in this world, however convenient or commodious it may be, is but as a tent that shall soon be taken down.
God is glorified in the work of redemption in this, that there appears in it so absolute and universal a dependence of the redeemed on him.
When he had such a full view of the dreadfulness of the cup that he was to drink, that so amazed him, he would notwithstanding even then take it up, and drink it.
Christ will give himself to you, with all those various excellencies that meet in him, to your full and everlasting enjoyment.
Heaven is God’s palace. ‘Tis the house of the great King of the universe.
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