Tryon Edwards Quotes

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

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

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

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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

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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

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

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.

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

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.