Jonathan Edwards

If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.

—Jonathan Edwards

There are quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for God’s people that are weary.

—Jonathan Edwards

He delivers us out of prison, and lifts us off from the dunghill, and he sets us among princes, and causes us to inherit the throne of glory.

—Jonathan Edwards

They who come to Christ, do not only come to a resting place after they have been wandering in a wilderness, but they come to a banqueting-house where they may rest, and where they may feast.

—Jonathan Edwards

A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.

—Jonathan Edwards

Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.

—Jonathan Edwards

It is his work as Mediator to give rest to the weary, it is the work that he was anointed for, and in which he delights.

—Jonathan Edwards

God does not choose men, because they are excellent; but he makes them excellent, and because he has chosen them.

—Jonathan Edwards

Christ is not only a remedy for your weariness and trouble, but he will give you an abundance of the contrary, joy and delight.

—Jonathan Edwards

You need not wish for the wings of a dove that you may fly afar off, and be at rest, but Christ is night at hand, if you were but sensible of it.

—Jonathan Edwards

If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.

—Jonathan Edwards

There is no remedy but in Jesus Christ; there is nothing else will give you true quietness.

—Jonathan Edwards

When the sinner comes to Christ, it is all at once taken away, and the soul is left free, it is lightened of its burden, it is delivered from its bondage, and is like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowler.

—Jonathan Edwards

He gives that strength whereby he lifts up the hands that hang down, and strengthens the feeble knees.

—Jonathan Edwards

Through Christ, come to God the Father, from whom you have departed by sin.

—Jonathan Edwards

Christ gives his Spirit, that calms the mind, and is like a refreshing breeze of wind.

—Jonathan Edwards

That peace which results from true faith passes understanding, and that joy is joy unspeakable.

—Jonathan Edwards

The soul sees in Christ a way to peace with God, and a way by which the law may be answered, and justice satisfied, and yet he may escape; a wonderful way indeed, but yet a certain and a glorious one.

—Jonathan Edwards

Accept of the offered love of him who is the only-begotten Son of God, and his elect, in whom his soul delighteth.

—Jonathan Edwards

He takes away the guilt of sin, from which the soul before saw no way how it was possible to be freed, and which, if it was not removed, led to eternal destruction.

—Jonathan Edwards

Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.

—Jonathan Edwards

There are plenty and fulness in him; he is like a river that is always flowing, you may live by it for ever, and never be in want.

—Jonathan Edwards

Come to him who is ‘as rivers of water in a dry place.’

—Jonathan Edwards

Christ puts strength and a principle of new life into the weary soul that comes to him.

—Jonathan Edwards

If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.

—Jonathan Edwards

Many of those who are in Christ are condemned by others who are unjust judges.

—Jonathan Edwards

In the sufferings of Christ, the threatening of the law is already completely finished, that infinite punishment has been eternally gone through.

—Jonathan Edwards

The glory and honor of God requires that sometimes there should be tokens of his displeasure against the sins of men here in this world.

—Jonathan Edwards

If anything in the world could have been a temptation to God to dispense with justice, it would have been the infinite dearness of his own Son. But when he took our sins, God poured out his wrath upon him.

—Jonathan Edwards

That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.

—Jonathan Edwards