A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
