Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Why talk of it? Why invoke it? It is as dead as Tophet.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.

God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

And falling's just another way to fly.

He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height

Could the world fall?

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

The months fall to shards at my feet.