Quotes of Tryon Edwards - somelinesforyou

“ The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

“ Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

“ Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

“ Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

“ Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws — a thing which can never be demonstrated. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Never be so brief as to become obscure. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards

“ We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit — it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ 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". ”

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Tryon Edwards
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