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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»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Prejudice | Keywords: devils, possessed, ruinous, shuts
«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»
«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»
«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.»
«Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Ignorance, Mystery | Keywords: omniscient
«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»
«Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.»
«Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Guilt, Responsibility, Sin | Keywords: multitude
«Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument»
«To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better»

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