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
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.