William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes

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

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• There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Influence
  • Natural

• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Feelings

• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • High
  • Challenges

• Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • True
  • Progress

• Joy comes when we have the Spirit in our lives. When we have the Spirit, we rejoice in what the Savior has done for us.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Done
  • Joy

• We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Words
  • Tragedy

• The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.

  

  Keith Haring
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Humanity
  • Deep
  • Politics

• When we [Migos] talk about whatever we're talking about, and you visualise it, that's what we really went through.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Talking

• Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Music
  • Death
  • Sound

• Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....

  

  Robert Frost
  • High
  • Sky
  • Lord

• I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Find
  • Clothes
  • Store

• There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Women
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Politics
  • Certain
  • Attempting

• A disciple is a disciple maker.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Makers
  • Disciple

• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • People
  • Science
  • Mean

• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary. Mean Winning Perception Trying Problem Accepting Situation Relative Definitions Issues May Rejects Ifs Naive Small Wins

  

  Karl E. Weick
  • Mean
  • Situation
  • Perception

• I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • School
  • Team
  • Chess

• Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Man
  • Way
  • Problem

• 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
  • Absence
  • Intensity