Tryon Edwards Life Quotations

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

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 the world while we are still in it.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.