Tryon Edwards
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Tryon Edwards (1809 – 1894), D.D., was an American theologian, best known for compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards (the younger) in 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great, great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1st Corinthians chapter 13, the "Love Chapter", entitling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life", which is likely the most thorough analysis of the text of 1Cor 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 of the often-quoted entries in the "New 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 weakness,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."
- "If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others."
