This past week I attended the Desiring God Conference for Pastors in Minn. I was blown away by everything I experienced. I’d like to share with you some selected quotes by Jonathan Edwards that have stirred my soul and recap this week.

• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and.
• 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.
• A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.
• As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun
• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean.