Tryon Edwards Quotes

Abuse of any one generally shows that he has marked traits of character. The stupid and indifferent are passed by in silence.

Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.

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

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

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

The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.

Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. 'The simple,' says Solomon, 'believeth every word.'

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'

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. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

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

It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.”

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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

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.