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“It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.”

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 506.

God , Religion , History , Science

“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.

Truth

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 416.

Death , Pleasure

“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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 134.

Education , Training

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

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 88.

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

Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 80.

Hope , Loss

“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.

Truth