131 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

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

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

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.

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

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

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past – the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

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.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. – “Agnostic” is but the Greek for “ignoramus.”