命运掌握在自己手中

Thought leads to actions,                   积思成行，

Actions lead to habits,                        积行成习，

Habits become your character,          积习成性，

Character determines destiny.          积性成命。

            ----Tyron Edwards（神学家，宗教研究家）

Tyron Edwards was born in 1809 and died in 1894. He was an American theologian, best known for compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts", a book of quotations. He published the works of Jonathan Edwards (the younger) in 1842. He also compiled and published the sixteen sermons of his great, great grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, on 1 Corinthians 13, the "Love Chapter", titling the book "Charity And Its Fruits; Christian love as manifested in the heart and life", which thought by some[citation needed] to be the most thorough analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians 13 ever written.

He was minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845-1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.

Some of the often-quoted entries in the "New Dictionary of Thoughts" are:

• "Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

• "The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves--our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all."

• "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."

• "If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others."

• "Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."