Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die,… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee! — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
