Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809, Hartford, Conn. – 4 January 1894, Detroit, Mich.) was an American theologian, minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York. He was best known for his collection of quotations, ''A Dictionary of Thoughts'', a book of

quotation A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by ...

s, for his compilation of the sixteen sermons of his great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on

1 Corinthians 13 1 Corinthians 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. This chapter covers the subject of Love. In the original ...

as ''Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life'', and for his edition of the works of his grandfather,

Jonathan Edwards (the younger) Jonathan Edwards (May 26, 1745 – August 1, 1801) was an American theologian and linguist. Life and career Born in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay, he was the ninth child and second son of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards. In 17 ...

(in 1842). Edwards wrote: "Thoughts become words, words become deeds, deeds become habits, habits become character, and character becomes destiny. Therefore watch the thoughts of your mind with the sleepless eye of your mind." Some representative entries from ''A 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 weaknesses, 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."Tryon Edwards - WorldofQuotes.com
/ref> *"True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit ; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Tryon 1809 births 1894 deaths American people of English descent American theologians