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Letter "T" » Tryon Edwards Quotes
«He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error»
«The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Improvement
| Keywords:
deficiencies, divine grace, errors, first step, improvement, mental deficiency, sins
«Words are both better and worse than thoughts; they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
add to, blessing, endless, flight, for good, injury, instruction, ruin
«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.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
assumes, demonstrated, inconsistent, natural law, natural laws, natural science, opposed, permanence, rests, uniformity
«Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain»
«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»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Character,
Murder
| Keywords:
assassin, Body The, dagger, daggers, slanderer, slanderers, The Assassin, The Assassins
«Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
parting, reunion, The Reunion
«Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong»
«Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Anecdotes
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, appropriate, impressive, striking, vehicles
«To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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