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Tryon Edwards Quotes (1809-1894)
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About Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809 - 4 January 1894) was an American theologian, author. and minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.
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“Have something to say ; say it ; and stop when you’ve done.”
“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”
“There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.”
“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”
“Facts are God’s arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.”
“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
“Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.”
“Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.”
“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
“Temperance is to the body what religion is to the soul, the foundation and source of health and strength and peace.”
“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”
“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit ; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.”
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.”
“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.”
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Tryon Edwards on Estimates
Tryon Edwards on Deference
“Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good — the unconscious acknowledgment of the superiority or excellence of others.”
Tryon Edwards on Duty
“Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”
Misattributed Quotes
Quotes mistakenly credited to Tryon Edwards
“Anxiety is the poison of human life ; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? – Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”
About Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809 - 4 January 1894) was an American theologian, author. and minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.