No boldness in poor sinful worms of the dust, that have a right sight of God and themselves, will prompt them to approach to God with less fear and reverence than spotless and glorious angels in heaven, who cover their faces before his throne, Isa vi.

Jonathan Edwards

Christians are Christlike; none deserve the name of Christians, that are not so in their prevailing character.

Jonathan Edwards

That man is under great convictions whose conviction is great in proportion to his sin. But no man that is truly under great convictions thinks his conviction great in proportion to his sin. For if he does, it is a certain sign that he inwardly thinks his sins small. And if that be the case, it is a certain evidence that his conviction is small. And this, by the way, is the main reason that persons, when under a work of humiliation, are not sensible of it at the time of it.

Jonathan Edwards

An experienced servant of God has said, that, while popularity is a snare that few are not caught by, a more subtle and dangerous snare is to be famed for holiness. The fame of being a godly man is as great a snare as the fame of being learned or eloquent. It is possible to attend with scrupulous anxiety even to secret habits of devotion, in order to get a name for holiness.

Andrew Bonar

There is a sort of men, who indeed abundantly cry down works, and cry up faith in opposition to works, and set themselves very much as evangelical persons in opposition to those that are of a legal spirit, and make a fair show of advancing Christ and the gospel and the way of free grace, who are indeed some some of the greatest enemies to the gospel way of free grace, and the most dangerous opposers of pure humble Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

"Very many of the most important things declared in the gospel are hid from the eyes of natural men."

Jonathan Edwards

"We easily believe what we wish to believe."

Timothy Dwight

I have often been struck with [the thought] that nothing was heard of the danger of spurious [false] conversions. For months together, the thought never seemed to be glanced at, that there was any such thing as a satanic influence in the form of religion. Such a character as an enthusiastic hypocrite, or a self-deceived person, seemed never to be dreamed of.

Asahel Nettleton

"It is by seeing the excellency of Christ's Person that the saints are made sensible of the preciousness of His blood, and its sufficiency to atone for sin; for therein consists the preciousness of Christ's blood, that it is the blood of so excellent and amiable a Person."

Jonathan Edwards

"Don't expect what you don't inspect."

John S. Waldrip

"Take heed of giving thyself liberty of committing one sin, for that will lead thee to another; till, by an ill custom, it become natural."

John Bunyan

The plain truth is that false doctrine has been the chosen engine which Satan has employed in every age to stop the progress of the Gospel of Christ.

J. C. Ryle

"The human instruments which God uses in great triumphs of faith are no pacifists, but great fighters like Paul himself."

(Uttered in his last sermon preached at Princeton Theological Seminary.)

J. Gresham Machen

"False religion may cause persons to be loud and earnest in prayer."

Jonathan Edwards

"That religion which is not spiritual and saving may cause men . . . to delight to delight in hearing the word of God preached."

Jonathan Edwards

"If the actings of grace do much decay in the Christian, and he falls into a lifeless frame, he loses his assurance: but this kind of confidence of hypocrites will not be shaken by sin: they (at least some of them) will maintain their boldness in hope, in the most corrupt frames and wicked ways: which is a sure evidence of their delusion."

Jonathan Edwards

"Assurance is not so much to be gained by self-examination as by action."

Jonathan Edwards

"A true love to God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute."

Jonathan Edwards