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Edward Payson was an American Congregational preacher. He was born at Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father, Rev. Seth Payson , was pastor of the Congregational Church. His uncle, Phillips Payson , pastor of a church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was a physicist and astronomer.Edward Payson graduated from Harvard College in 1803, was then principal of a school at Portland, Maine, and in 1807 became junior pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, where he remained, after 1811, as senior pastor, until his death on October 22, 1827. Archibald Alexander suggested in 1844 that "no man in our country has left behind him a higher character for eminent piety than the Rev. Edward Payson."The most complete collection of his sermons, with a memoir by Asa Cummings originally published in 1828, is the Memoir, Select Thoughts and Sermons of the late Rev. Edward Payson . Based on this is the volume, Mementos of Edward Payson , by the Rev. E. L. Janes of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. July 1783 – 22. October 1827
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Famous Edward Payson Quotes

“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 579.

“As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understanding should be allowed only to shape and arrange the effusions of the heart in the manner best adapted to answer the end designed. From the fullness of a heart overflowing with holy affections, as from a copious fountain, we should pour forth a torrent of pious, humble, and ardently affectionate feelings; while our understandings only shape the channel and teach the gushing streams of devotion where to flow, and when to stop.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 464.

“God's will is the very perfection of all reason.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.

“I think that if we would, every evening, come to our Master's feet, and tell Him where we have been, what we have done, what we have said, and what were the motives by which we have been actuated, it would have a salutary effect upon our whole conduct.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 466.

“The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 335.

“Your only safety lies in placing yourself in circumstances which will make exertion necessary, and which will secure Divine assistance. Never mind your infirmities. You have nothing to do with them. Your business is to trust, and to go forward. If you wait till the sea becomes land, you will never walk on it. You must leave the ship, and, like Peter, set your feet upon the waves, and you will find them marble.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 125.

“Jesus knows that we had rather labor than suffer; and that we would rather labor. and suffer, too, than be laid aside. No man is fit to rise up and labor, until he is made willing to lie still and suffer as long as his Master pleases.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 51.

“"Not for ourselves, but for others," is the grand law inscribed on every part of creation.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 26.

“Our public prayers too often consist almost entirely of passages of Scripture—not always judiciously chosen or well arranged — and common-place phrases, which have been transmitted down for ages, from one generation to another, selected and put together just as we would compose a sermon or essay, while the heart is allowed no share in the performance; so that we may more properly be said to make a prayer than to pray.”

Edward Payson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 472.

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