Thomas Chalmers Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
• 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:…
• Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here…
• The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread…
• O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.
• The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the…
• Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested away without the…
• Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.
• There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
• Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.
• 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…
• 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.…
• The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
• ... moral evil is its own curse.

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