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Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian.
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“This dictate of common sense.”
“Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.”
“I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.”
“Resolved, always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.”
“Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.”
“Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.”
“To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.”
“The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.”
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
“Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."”
“Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.”
“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.”
“A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“Suppose Jonathan Edwards had been born a woman; suppose William James, for that matter, had been born a woman? (The invalid seclusion of his sister Alice is suggestive.) Even from men, New England took its psychic toll; many of its geniuses seemed peculiar in one way or another, particularly along the lines of social intercourse...Emily Dickinson-viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as "partially cracked," by the twentieth century as fey or pathological-has increasingly struck me as a practical woman, exercising her gift as she had to, making choices.”
About Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian.