By Jonathan Edwards
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Knowledge is pleasant and delightful to intelligent creatures, and above all the knowledge of divine things.
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.
It is the nature of love to be averse to absence, and to love a near access to those whom we love.
Spread all your wickedness before him, and do not plead your goodness; but plead your badness, and your necessity.
The souls of true saints, when they leave their bodies at death, go to be with Christ.
God hath not made giving instructions to men in things of divinity a business by the by; but a business which he hath undertaken and prosecuted in a course of great and wonderful dispensations.
Men are not saved on the account of any work of theirs, and yet they are not saved without works.
The blood of Christ is so precious, that it is fully sufficient to pay the debt you have contracted.
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.
The sovereignty of God is his absolute, independent right of disposing of all creatures according to his own pleasure.
In Christ infinite greatness and infinite goodness meet together, and receive lustre and glory one from another.
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.
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
There is an appointed day of God’s patience, which is as certainly limited as it was to the old world.
They shall eat and drink abundantly, and swim in the ocean of love, and be eternally swallowed up in the infinitely bright, and infinitely mild and sweet beams of divine love.
All the kings of the earth, before God, are as grasshoppers; they are nothing, and less than nothing.
It is the resolution of the mouth more than of the heart; their hearts are not strongly bent to fulfill what their mouth says.
God may, through this Mediator, not only justly, but honourably, show you mercy.
If you think yourselves already converted, and that encourages you to give yourselves the greater liberty in sinning, this is a certain sign that you are not converted.
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