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 …

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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 o…

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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…

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Clear statement is argument.

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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

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

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd