Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards was an American theologian, best known for compiling A Dictionary of Thoughts, a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwardsin 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his 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 was thought by some to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
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.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.