Jonathan Edwards "You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary." "All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean." "God is the highest good of the reasonable creature." "O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world." "Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my sin, and refine me seven times." "The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!" "We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself." "Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory." "All our good is more apparently from God because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good." "Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life." "When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help." "Faith abases men and exalts God; it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone." "Nature is God's greatest evangelist." "Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions." "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will." "How can you expect to dwell with God forever if you so neglect and forsake him here?" "Greatest concern is not for your health or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though" "The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts." "Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life." "Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important." "That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive." "A man never, in any instance, wills anything contrary to his desires, or desires anything contrary to his Will." "For the very notion of the hardness of heart implies moral inability." "Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important." "Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better." "Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die." "He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good sees the greatest and most important thing in the world." "Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action." "Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence." "Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance." "Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being." "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." "To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it." "The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being." "You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary." "To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here." "Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility." "When God is about to do a mighty new thing he always sets His people praying." "Christians are spoken of as those "that have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them." "The present state is short and transitory, but our state in the other world is everlasting." "I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early." "He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid." "If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked." "Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people." "The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy." "The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God." "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs." "Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven." "No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety." "Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell." "Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering." "You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell." "It is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell..." "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." "The Devil stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it." "I resolve to endeavor to my utmost to act and think as if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell."