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Jonathan Edwards QUOTES

Jonathan Edwards QUOTES

1 " When I look into my heart, and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell. "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

2 " Jonathan Edwards is sometimes criticized for having too dim a view of human nature, but it may be helpful to be reminded that his grandmother was an incorrigible profligate, his great-aunt committed infanticide, and his great-uncle was an ax-murderer. "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

3 " Having once thought that most of his parishioners shared the life-changing encounter with blazing beauty, it was all the harder for him to see them day after day preoccupied with petty jealousies, avarice, and lusts, and to endure their sullen expressions and bored irreverence as they went through the forms of weekly worship. "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

4 " Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically. "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

5 " Edwards followed what he believed the proper procedure whenever contemplating a move: he agreed to convene an ad hoc council of clergy that would meet in May to advise him what to do.26 "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

6 " Regeneration, in other words, changed the whole person by changing the love at the heart of the person's being. "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards

7 " True saints," Edwards observed with typical God-centeredness, are "inexpressibly pleased and delighted with ... the things of God." Hypocrites, by contrast, revel in themselves. "The hypocrite has his mind pleased and delighted, in the first place, with his own privilege, and the happiness which he supposes he has attained, or shall obtain."58 "

― George M. Marsden , Jonathan Edwards