Top 160 Jonathan Edwards Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”

— Jonathan Edwards

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2. “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”

— Jonathan Edwards

3. “Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”

— Jonathan Edwards

4. “How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?”

— Jonathan Edwards

5. “The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.”

— Jonathan Edwards

6. “I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.”

— Jonathan Edwards

7. “A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.”

— Jonathan Edwards

8. “God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.”

— Jonathan Edwards

9. “He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.”

— Jonathan Edwards

10. “The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.”

— Jonathan Edwards

11. “Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.”

— Jonathan Edwards

12. “Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”

— Jonathan Edwards

13. “If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.”

— Jonathan Edwards

14. “Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.”

— Jonathan Edwards

15. “Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”

— Jonathan Edwards

16. “He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.”

— Jonathan Edwards

17. “There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.”

— Jonathan Edwards

18. “We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.”

— Jonathan Edwards

19. “True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.”

— Jonathan Edwards

20. “When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.”

— Jonathan Edwards

21. “Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.”

— Jonathan Edwards

22. “Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.”

— Jonathan Edwards

23. “The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.”

— Jonathan Edwards

24. “We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.”

— Jonathan Edwards

25. “God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.”

— Jonathan Edwards

26. “Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.”

— Jonathan Edwards

27. “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

28. “Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.”

— Jonathan Edwards

29. “Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.”

— Jonathan Edwards

30. “Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.”

— Jonathan Edwards

31. “It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.”

— Jonathan Edwards

32. “Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.”

— Jonathan Edwards

33. “Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.”

— Jonathan Edwards

34. “A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.”

— Jonathan Edwards

35. “Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.”

— Jonathan Edwards

36. “To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”

— Jonathan Edwards

37. “Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.”

— Jonathan Edwards

38. “Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness.”

— Jonathan Edwards

39. “Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.”

— Jonathan Edwards

40. “Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.”

— Jonathan Edwards

41. “Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”

— Jonathan Edwards

42. “There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!”

— Jonathan Edwards

43. “From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.”

— Jonathan Edwards

44. “Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.”

— Jonathan Edwards

45. “I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.”

— Jonathan Edwards

46. “The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.”

— Jonathan Edwards

47. “The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.”

— Jonathan Edwards

48. “Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.”

— Jonathan Edwards

49. “Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.”

— Jonathan Edwards

50. “Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.”

— Jonathan Edwards