Best remembered for his sermon, "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards was exemplary of that curious mixture of solemnity and deep joy which Leland Ryken writes of in his Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were. Edwards wrote hundreds of sermons, dozens of books, and was a great educator, both at Yale and Princeton (when they were actually Christian colleges). But what I admire about him most were his progeny: he was father and grandfather to thirteen university presidents, sixty-five professors, and scores of ministers.
Here are a selection of my favorite quotes by Edwards:
“Resolution One: I will live for God.
Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here”
“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
The is the second in a series of five posts taken from a chapel program prepared for Redeemer Christian School, Mesa, Arizona, on "The Voices of the Great Awakening."
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