{"author":"Jonathan Edwards","author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["affection","love","religion"],"id":7444,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. . .] That unconverted men are without God shows that they are liable to all manner of evil [. . .] liable to the power of the devil, to the power of all manner of temptation [. . .] to be deceived and seduced into erroneous opinions [. . .] to embrace damnable doctrines [. . .] to be given up of God to judicial hardness of heart [. . .] to commit all manner of sin, and even the unpardonable sin itself. They cannot be sure they shall not commit that sin. They are liable to build up a false hope of heaven, and so to go hoping to hell [. . .] to die senseless and stupid, as many have died [. . .] to die in such a case as Saul and Judas did, fearless of hell. They have no security from it. They are liable to all manner of mischief, since they are without God. They cannot tell what shall befall them, nor when they are secure from anything. They are not safe one moment. Ten thousand fatal mischiefs may befall them, that may make them miserable forever. They, who have God for their God, are safe from all such evils. It is not possible that they should befall them. God is their covenant God, and they have his faithful promise to be their refuge.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["misery","peril","the-unconverted"],"id":10423,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and affections of the mind; and in steadfastly and freely exerting and following good affections and dispositions, without being hindered by sinful fear or the opposition of enemies... Though Christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting the enemies that are without us; yet it much more appears in resisting and suppressing the enemies that are within us; because they are our worst and strongest enemies and have greatest advantage against us. The strength of the good soldier of Jesus Christ appears in nothing more than in steadfastly maintaining the holy calm, meekness, sweetness, and benevolence of his mind, amidst all the storms, injuries, strange behaviour, and surprising acts and events of this evil and unreasonable world.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["character","fortitude","mind","sin","strength","will"],"id":43302,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["prayer"],"id":56511,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["miracles","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":63209,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["breathing","life","necessity","prayer"],"id":70824,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["education"],"id":75877,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["god"],"id":105697,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is proper that the shining forth of God's glory should be complete; that is, that all parts of his glory should shine forth, that every beauty should be proportionably effulgent, that the beholder may have a proper notion of God.”\tThus it is necessary, that God's awful majesty, his authority and dreadful greatness, justice, and holiness, should be manifested. But this could not be, unless sin and punishment had been decreed; so that the shining forth of God's glory would be very imperfect, both because these parts of divine glory would not shine forth as the others do, and also the glory of his goodness, love, and holiness would be faint without them; nay, they could scarcely shine forth at all.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["divine-decrees","divine-wrath","evil","god-s-glory","god-s-wrath","sin","the-problem-of-evil"],"id":109919,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it, . . . By a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should have any thorough and effectual conviction of it at all. They may without this, see a great deal of probability of it; it may be reasonable for them to give much credit to what learned men and historians tell them. . . . But to have a conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce them, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments, and to trample the world under foot, and count all things but dung for Christ, the evidence they can have from history, cannot be sufficient.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["education","holy-s","revelation"],"id":115092,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}