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

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

- Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

- Tryon Edwards

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

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

- Tryon Edwards

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

- Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

- Tryon Edwards

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above th…

- Tryon Edwards

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

- Tryon Edwards