Tryon Edwards: First

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

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“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 517.

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

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 3.

“The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.

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

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

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.

“The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny.”

As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.