Portrait of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards on Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
— Hebrews 11:1

4 quotations from Jonathan Edwards on Faith, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.

Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards 4

  1. It is God that gives us faith whereby we close with Christ.
  2. Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.
  3. There is not only a rational belief that God is holy and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God’s holiness.
  4. He does not merely rationally believe that God is glorious, but he has a sense of the gloriousness of God in his heart.