Jonathan Edwards Quotes on Truth
Jonathan Edwards was an American Puritan theologian, philosopher, and pastor and the leading intellectual of colonial New England. This page collects quotes attributed to Jonathan Edwards on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jonathan Edwards:
“True virtue consists in benevolence to being in general.”
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Attributed to Jonathan Edwards:
“The world exists only as it is known by mind.”
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“When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.”
Diary (7 July 1724). -
“Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."”
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers(1895) | p. 396. -
“Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.”
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers(1895) | p. 619.