The Works of Jonathan Edwards Quotes

“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

“greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“the presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things;”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“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

“our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“This glorious Person came down from heaven to be ‘the Light of the world,’ that by him the beauty of the Deity might shine forth, in the brightest and fullest manner, to the children of men.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“the divine virtue, or the virtue of the divine mind, must consist primarily in love to himself, or in the mutual love and friendship which subsists eternally and necessarily between the several persons in the Godhead, or that infinitely strong propensity there is in these divine persons one to another.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Present choice cannot at present choose to be otherwise: for that would be at present to choose something diverse from what is at present chosen.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself:”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“affair.—The mind being a designing Cause, only enables it to produce effects in consequence of its design; it will not enable it to be the designing Cause of all its own designs.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“In order to this there must be something besides a general tendency to action; there must also be a particular tendency to that individual action.—If it should be asked, why the soul of man uses its activity, in such a manner as it does;”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will’s Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“By particular and occasional moral Inability, I mean an Inability of the will or heart to a particular act, through the strength or defect of present motives, or of inducements presented to the view of the understanding, on this occasion.—If”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“the Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“in order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“But if we admit that any event may come into existence by chance, and without a cause, the existence of the world may be accounted for in this same way; and atheism is established.—Mr.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“though we are not the efficient causes of our own acts of will, yet they may be either virtuous or vicious;”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“but his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“No, rather let me die this moment, than be left to bring dishonour on God’s holy name.—I”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1

“They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Vol 1