131 Quotes by Tryon Edwards

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

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

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

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.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

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.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

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