Edwards | Lewis

Quotes from Johnathan Edwards and C. S. Lewis. They might not have been friends, but they share a peculiar gloriousness and UNFAMILIAR JOY

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
#CSLewis

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains! #CSLewis

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. #CSLewis

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life #johnathanEdwards

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. #CSL

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. #CSLewis

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy;

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. #johnathanEdwards #grace #glory

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed. #johnathanEdwards

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devils reach than humility!

[David Brainerd @BrainerdQuotes]

Farewell, vain world; my soul can bid adieu;
My Saviour’s taught me to abandon you.
Your charms may gratify a sensual mind;
Not please a soul wholly for God design’d.

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; He is the only happiness which we can be satisfied

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God. #johnathanEdwards

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance. #Puritan

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. #johnathanEdwards

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason.

[Edwards | Lewis @UnfamiliarJoy]

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. #johnathanEdwards