Tryon Edwards

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

— Tryon Edwards

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

— Tryon Edwards

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

— Tryon Edwards

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use…

— Tryon Edwards

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save…

— Tryon Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at…

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

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

— Tryon Edwards

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done…

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give…

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Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but…

— Tryon Edwards

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as…

— Tryon Edwards

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in…

— Tryon Edwards

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or…

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True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion…

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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its…

— Tryon Edwards

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking…

— Tryon Edwards

The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall…

— Tryon Edwards

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will…

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

True art is reverent imitation of God.

— Tryon Edwards

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

— Tryon Edwards

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

— Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

— Tryon Edwards

Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season

— Tryon Edwards

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

— Tryon Edwards

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come…

— Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

— Tryon Edwards