Tryon Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#faith #faith

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#every #form #heaven #parting #reunion

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#example #higher #improve #look #never

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#depart #fall #god #great #leaf

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#doing #doing good #exercise #good #increase

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#elements #falsehood #first #inaccuracy #kin

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#bread #death #end #forbidden #like

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. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#born #cheerful #count #die #even

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#education #end #fill #furnish #great

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#bad #best #future #in the past #past