“Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)

Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894), D.D., was an American theologian, best known for compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotations

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