32 Famous Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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About Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling "A Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotations. [But see note in Talk section.] He published the works of Jonathan Edwards in 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great, great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13, the "Love Chapter", titling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life", which thought by some to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians 13 ever written.
He was minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845-1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.
Some representative entries from "A Dictionary of Thoughts" are:
?"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."
?"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves--our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all."
?"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.
Slander
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument
Anecdotes
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Compromise
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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
Controversy
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Guilt
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all
Improvement
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny
Thinking
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Education
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Memory
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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Exaggeration
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Age
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
Compromise
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Grave
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