Shedd Quotes & Sayings

I intend to keep writing stories that piss people off, that tell the particular kind of truth I think is valid, that will make me feel more and more like a Writer of Stature, Which I honestly think I am, really, I mean it, I don't doubt it for a second dammit, so stop giggling! Stories that will make Dr Shedd sniff the air and make Lester smile as je thinks, The kid's coming along all right. — Harlan Ellison

Simply having children does not make mothers. — John G. Shedd

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together. — Charlie W 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 of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them. — 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

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

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. — William G.T. Shedd

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

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Opportunities are seldom labeled. — John G. Shedd

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ~ John Augustus Shedd — Tracy Korn

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents. — Charlie W 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 no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair. — Charlie W Shedd

What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant". — Charlie W Shedd

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. — John G. 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

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. — Charlie W Shedd

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. — John G. Shedd