Tryon Edwards was born in 1809 and died in 1894. He was an American theologian, best known for compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotation

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s. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards (the younger)

Jonathan Edwards (the younger)

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 in 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great, great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13

Chapter 13 of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, written by Paul the apostle covers the subject of love, principally the love that Christians should have for everyone. In the original Greek, the word αγαπη agape is used throughout...

, 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

1 Corinthians 13

Chapter 13 of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, written by Paul the apostle covers the subject of love, principally the love that Christians should have for everyone. In the original Greek, the word αγαπη agape is used throughout...

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."

• "Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."

Other quotes:

• "[In Christ,] We are not punished for our sins but by them."