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“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
― Jonathan Edwards

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

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

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

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

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

“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

“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?”
― Jonathan Edwards, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

“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, The Religious Affections

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings

“Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ”
― Jonathon Edwards

“The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

“The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God’s glory.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father’s house.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd