Tryon Edwards Quotes

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

True art is reverent imitation of God.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.