“One studies the time and backgrounds of some men in order to understand them. Others have such rare greatness that one studies them in order to understand their times. . . . Jonathan Edwards was such an original.”
- Paul Ramsey, Editor of Edwards's ethical writings in the Yale critical edition

“No man is more relevant to the present condition of Christianity than Jonathan Edwards.”
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The western church . . . much of it drifting, enculturated, and infected with cheap grace . . . desperately needs to hear Edwards's challenge.”
- Charles Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview

“[Edwards] speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him.”
- Perry Miller, Former Harvard Historian

“One of the most holy, humble and heavenly minded men that the world has seen since the apostolic age.”
- Ashbel Green, 1829, Former President of the College of New Jersey

“. . . the profoundest reasoner, and the greatest divine . . . that America ever produced.”
- Samuel Davies, 1759

“[Edwards] was a man who put faithfulness to the Word of God before every other consideration.”
- Iain Murray, Edwards's Biographer

“The disappearance of Edwards's [God-entranced] perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy.”
- Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

“Edwards's book, The End for Which God Created the World [is] . . . unsurpassed in terms of its theological grandeur.”
- David Brand, Author, Edwards Scholar