A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

We want to tell our fans to love who you are. You're yourself, so you shouldn't change it.

A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

The customer is the most important part of the production line.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

I was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

As much as I love food, I'd have to save my girls!

Managing by results only makes things worse.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

People are entitled to joy in work.

Love is an impossible concept.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

Right now I'm pouring my heart out and she's pulling faces

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

You can expect what you inspect.