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

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Usefulness
Discipline
Others
Life

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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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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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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.
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We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
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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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True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
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This world is the land of the dying the next is the land of the living.
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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.
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
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