William Greenough Thayer Shedd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #World
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
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
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 #Demand #Culture
Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.
-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Smart #Frogs #Bugs
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Men #Horizon #Ideals
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
They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.
-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Mind #Firsts
Clear statement is argument.
-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Argument #Clear #Statements

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd famous quotes

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