110+ Jonathan Edwards Quotes On Prayer, Hell And Sin

Jonathan Edwards was an American Clergyman who was a revivalist preacher, theologian, and philosopher in the 18th century. He was a key figure in the Great Awakening revival and his sermons were very influential in the religious culture of the American colonies. He is known for his works such as Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and The Freedom of the Will. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jonathan Edwards on prayer, hell, sin.

Top 10 Jonathan Edwards Quotes

1. Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
2. How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
3. He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
4. The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
5. Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
6. The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
7. They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
8. Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
9. Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
10. If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Jonathan Edwards Image Quotes

Nature is God's greatest evangelist. — Jonathan Edwards

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Short Quotes

• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
• We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
• The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
• Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
• Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
• Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
• Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
• No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
• If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept. — Jonathan Edwards

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Hell

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards

Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell. — Jonathan Edwards

I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell. — Jonathan Edwards

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell. — Jonathan Edwards

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering. — Jonathan Edwards

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. — Jonathan Edwards

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Sin

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help. — Jonathan Edwards

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. — Jonathan Edwards

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

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Heaven

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. — Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. — Jonathan Edwards

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Love

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it. — Jonathan Edwards

Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man. — Jonathan Edwards

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life. — 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

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. — Jonathan Edwards

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good. — Jonathan Edwards

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this. — Jonathan Edwards

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal! — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Grace

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation. — Jonathan Edwards

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. — Jonathan Edwards

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. — Jonathan Edwards

Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake. — Jonathan Edwards

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual. — 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

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Inspirational

True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him. — 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

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence. — Jonathan Edwards

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same. — 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

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Righteousness

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith. — Jonathan Edwards

Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it. — Jonathan Edwards

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Quotes About Natural

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. — Jonathan Edwards

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. — Jonathan Edwards

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action. — Jonathan Edwards

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease. — Jonathan Edwards

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian. — Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Famous Quotes And Sayings

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards

Nature is God's greatest evangelist. — Jonathan Edwards

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him. — Jonathan Edwards

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness. — Jonathan Edwards

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s. — Jonathan Edwards

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind. — Jonathan Edwards

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’ — Jonathan Edwards

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers. — Jonathan Edwards

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind. — Jonathan Edwards

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. — Jonathan Edwards

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

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God. — Jonathan Edwards

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed? — Jonathan Edwards

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness — Jonathan Edwards

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. — Jonathan Edwards

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them. — Jonathan Edwards

By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us. — Jonathan Edwards

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age. — Jonathan Edwards

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good. — Jonathan Edwards

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission. — Jonathan Edwards

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain. — Jonathan Edwards

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? — Jonathan Edwards

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men. — Jonathan Edwards

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. — Jonathan Edwards

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life. — Jonathan Edwards

The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. 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

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. — Jonathan Edwards

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. — Jonathan Edwards

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it. — Jonathan Edwards

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. — Jonathan Edwards

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy. — Jonathan Edwards

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination. — Jonathan Edwards

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. — Jonathan Edwards

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. — Jonathan Edwards

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing. — Jonathan Edwards

But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises. — Jonathan Edwards

Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility. — Jonathan Edwards

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better. — Jonathan Edwards

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false. — Jonathan Edwards

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness — Jonathan Edwards

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other. — Jonathan Edwards

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost. — Jonathan Edwards

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. — Jonathan Edwards

The material universe exists only in the mind. — Jonathan Edwards

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out. — Jonathan Edwards

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls. — Jonathan Edwards

To live with all my might, while I do live — Jonathan Edwards

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is. — Jonathan Edwards

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being. — Jonathan Edwards

Life Lessons by Jonathan Edwards

1. Jonathan Edwards taught that life should be lived with a focus on the spiritual and eternal, rather than the material and temporal. He believed that we should strive to live a life of holiness and obedience to God, and that our ultimate goal should be to glorify God.
2. Edwards also taught that we should be motivated by love and gratitude for God's grace and mercy, rather than fear of punishment or reward. He emphasized that we should be humble and recognize our own sinfulness, and that we should strive to live a life of service to others.
3. Finally, Edwards taught that we should be open to God's will and strive to be obedient to it, trusting in His plan for our lives. He believed that we should seek to understand and appreciate the beauty