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True art is reverent imitation of God.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
True
Reverent
Imitation
Art

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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
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He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
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All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?
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He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
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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.
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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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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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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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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
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