T S. Edwards Quotes

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

Manage the cause, not the result.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Things do happen and it's not you that changes, it's your life that changes

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.