The Essential Jonathan Edwards Quotes

“All work done for the Lord is important. Every position, every vocation, allows us the opportunity to give God glory, whether we labor as a flower-shop owner, a stay-at-home mother, a bus driver, a corporate lawyer, or a writer. How we do the work given us in God’s gracious providence matters greatly to Him”
― Owen Strachan, The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian

“Christ deals with his church as a father…He has not contented himself with only saying, ‘Be kind one to another,’ knowing that a care that lies in everybody’s hands equally is like to be neglected, but he has appointed officers, that his children may be fed in both body and soul as their necessities require”
― Owen Strachan, The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian

“Some talk of it as an unreasonable thing to think to fright persons to heaven; but I think it is a reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from hell, that stand upon the brink of it, and are just ready to fall into it, and are senseless of their danger: ’tis a reasonable thing to fright a person out of an house on fire.”
― Owen Strachan, The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian