Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness an… - Jonathan Edwards

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

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