Top 160 Jonathan Edwards Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.”

— Jonathan Edwards

52. “And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”

— Jonathan Edwards

53. “There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.”

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Jonathan Edwards

55. “Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.”

— Jonathan Edwards

56. “Trust in God and ye need not fear.”

— Jonathan Edwards

57. “You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.”

— Jonathan Edwards

58. “The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.”

— Jonathan Edwards

59. “You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.”

— Jonathan Edwards

60. “Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.”

— Jonathan Edwards

61. “Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.”

— Jonathan Edwards

62. “Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.”

— Jonathan Edwards

63. “Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.”

— Jonathan Edwards

64. “If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.”

— Jonathan Edwards

65. “Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.”

— Jonathan Edwards

66. “Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.”

— Jonathan Edwards

67. “Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.”

— Jonathan Edwards

68. “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.”

— Jonathan Edwards

69. “The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’”

— Jonathan Edwards

70. “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

71. “By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.”

— Jonathan Edwards

72. “One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

— Jonathan Edwards

73. “Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell.”

— Jonathan Edwards

74. “They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due.”

— Jonathan Edwards

75. “Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.”

— Jonathan Edwards

76. “He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.”

— Jonathan Edwards

77. “He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.”

— Jonathan Edwards

78. “Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.”

— Jonathan Edwards

79. “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.”

— Jonathan Edwards

80. “If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.”

— Jonathan Edwards

81. “Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.”

— Jonathan Edwards

82. “The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”

— Jonathan Edwards

83. “I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.”

— Jonathan Edwards

84. “Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that ’tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.”

— Jonathan Edwards

85. “Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.”

— Jonathan Edwards

86. “Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.”

— Jonathan Edwards

87. “The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.”

— Jonathan Edwards

88. “Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.”

— Jonathan Edwards

89. “The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.”

— Jonathan Edwards

90. “He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.”

— Jonathan Edwards

91. “Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.”

— Jonathan Edwards

92. “Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.”

— Jonathan Edwards

93. “Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.”

— Jonathan Edwards

94. “The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.”

— Jonathan Edwards

95. “The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.”

— Jonathan Edwards

96. “Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.”

— Jonathan Edwards

97. “A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.”

— Jonathan Edwards

98. “It’s all about training and rhythm and getting it right on the day.”

— Jonathan Edwards

99. “The material universe exists only in the mind.”

— Jonathan Edwards

100. “Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.”

— Jonathan Edwards