Top 14 Quotes About Total Depravity
#1. 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
#2. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
L.M. Montgomery
#4. Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.
Tullian Tchividjian
#5. The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity.
Joseph C. Morecraft III
#6. I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.
Debbie Reynolds
#7. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#8. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).
Richard Baxter
#10. When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.
Ishe Smith
#11. Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.
James K.A. Smith
#12. So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
Richard Baxter
#13. I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
Boz Scaggs
#14. You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Yogi Berra
