William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes

• Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Smart, Frogs, Bugs

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• Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Mean, Men, Holiness

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• A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Men, Horizon, Ideals

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology”, p.111

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• They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Mind, Firsts

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• Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Moving, Men, Doctrine

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology”, p.26

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• That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Exercise, Men, Grace

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• There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Discipline, Culture, Demand

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1878). “Literary Essays”

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• Clear statement is argument.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Argument, Clear, Statements

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• The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Criticism, Disappear, Comprehending

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics and Pastoral Theology”

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