Tryon Edwards
Theologian
1809-08-07
Books by Tryon Edwards
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, D.D.
Late President of Union College. With a Memoir ...
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Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
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To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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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.
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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