Thomas Chalmers Quotes

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• 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

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  Beauty, Christian, Religious

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• 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

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  Love, Heart, Power

  Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11

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• 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 substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

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  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

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  Men, Evil, Design

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

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  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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

  Thomas Chalmers

  War, Hands, Sovereign

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• 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

  Christian, Prayer, Lying

  Thomas Chalmers (1847). “Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes”, p.34

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• 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.

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  Book, Happy Life, Blessing

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

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  Moving, Men, Light

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

  Thomas Chalmers

  God, Christian, Religious

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

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  Faith, Christian, Hands

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

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  Vanity, Compliment, Court

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.169

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• 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 Bible bids you.

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  Believe, Preparation, Substance

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Works: Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans”, p.27

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• Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Vision

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• 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.

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  Simple, Blood, Holiness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 602, 1895.

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

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  Common Sense, Said, Uncommon

  Thomas Chalmers (1840). “On natural theology”, p.276

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• 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 out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

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  Beautiful, Confused, Flower

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 317, 1895.

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

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  Giving, Movement, Regulation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 438, 1895.

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• I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

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  Decision, Steps, Sufficiency

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 186, 1895.

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

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  Blessed, Giving, Wealth

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

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• 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.

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  Christian, Men, Divinity

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

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  Character, Dark, Blessing

  "Voices of the dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.

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• Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

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  Character, Virtue, Habit

  Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man”, p.148

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• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

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  Thinking, Office, Meditation

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• 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

  Father, Names, Principles

  Diary entry, March 14, 1812.

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