Thomas Chalmers

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of…

— Thomas Chalmers

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

— Thomas Chalmers

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

— Thomas Chalmers

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

— Thomas Chalmers

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose…

— Thomas Chalmers

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to…

— Thomas Chalmers

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year,…

— Thomas Chalmers

In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice…

— Thomas Chalmers

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power…

— Thomas Chalmers

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

— Thomas Chalmers

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in…

— Thomas Chalmers

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

— Thomas Chalmers

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did…

— Thomas Chalmers

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the…

— Thomas Chalmers

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

— Thomas Chalmers

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

— Thomas Chalmers

The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it…

— Thomas Chalmers

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body…

— Thomas Chalmers

I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I…

— Thomas Chalmers

The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and…

— Thomas Chalmers