"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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Tryon Edwards

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“Even a mistake is better than nothing.”
“Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.”
“Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's dress, the mind of a grasshopper, or into the glass eyeballs of a buffalo head mounted on the wall of a home in suburban Texas to contemplate 'man's tireless ingenuity.'”
“Hereâ€™s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do whatâ€™s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do whatâ€™s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more youâ€™re growing spiritually at that particular moment.”
“It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!”
“Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.”
“God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.”
“If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.”

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