Jonathan Edwards Quotes

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

The revolutionist has no personal right to anything. Everything he has or earns belongs to the Cause. Everything, even his affections.

In prosecution of his holy purposes, he overlooked every human consideration.

I will not condone murder, therefore I disobey and continue to disobey Salazar [Dictator of Portugal]. My desire is to be with God against men, rather than with men against God., If thousands of Jews can suffer because of one Catholic [Hitler], then surely it is permitted for one Catholic to suffer for so many Jews. I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel.

...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

My mother was very passionate about life and she would do anything for us. And she had to fight alone to raise us. We never had a lot of money for extras or anything. She had to work six days a week, and then she would do breakfast, lunch and dinner. She was a super-woman! For me, I don't know how she did it with three kids.