Tryon Edwards Quotes - Page 4

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

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 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 religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

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

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

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.

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

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.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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