Jonathan Edwards Heaven Quotations

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.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.