Tryon Edwards Quotes

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

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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

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