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Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God morality is religion with its face toward the world.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Morality
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Religion
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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - Agnostic is but the Greek for ignoramus.
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
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He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
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