Jonathan Edwards

“The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.”

“True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.”

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

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”

“The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of...”

“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 a...”