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  • It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

    War   Hands   Sovereign  
  • The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

    Love   Heart   Power  
    Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11
  • With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

    Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses ...”, p.208
  • Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

    Vision  
  • Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

  • It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

    Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society”, p.342
  • By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

    Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328
  • O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

    Diary entry, March 14, 1812.
  • Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

    Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man”, p.148
  • I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.

    Thomas Chalmers (1847). “Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes”, p.34
  • ... moral evil is its own curse.

    Evil   Moral   Curse  
    Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328
  • The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

  • Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

    William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.184
  • The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

    Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314
  • The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

    Baby  
    Letter. Quoted by Ruskin "Sesame and Lilies", Section I. 40, 1865.
  • In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.

    Men   Practice   Voice  
    Thomas Chalmers, John Cumming (1853). “On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man by Thomas Chalmers”, p.57
  • The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

    Hurt   Pain   Animal  
  • Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.

    Heart   Thinking   Soul  
  • It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

    Thomas Chalmers (1840). “On natural theology”, p.276
  • Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

    Faith   Christian   Hands  
  • If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

  • O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 438, 1895.
  • Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

    William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.169
  • Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

    Simple   Blood   Holiness  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 602, 1895.
  • A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

  • There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

    "Voices of the Dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.
  • Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  • It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

    Blessed   Giving   Wealth  
    Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
  • The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

  • Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

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