William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
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Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.
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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
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A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
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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.
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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.
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They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.
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Clear statement is argument.
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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.