Tryon Edwards: Duty

Tryon Edwards was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on duty.

Tryon Edwards: 114 quotes2 likes

“Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 225.

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 464.

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.

“Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty. – God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.

“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty.”

Tryon Edwards

God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end.”

Tryon Edwards

'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.