Quotes by Thomas Chalmers

Thomas Chalmers

… moral evil is its own curse.

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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.

Blessing

Book

Happy Life

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.

Blessed

Giving

Purpose

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

Calm

Enthusiasm

Prosperity

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.

Blessing

Character

Dark

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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Office

Thinking

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.

Christian

Lying

Prayer

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, but reproduces something.

Giving

Infidelity

Weed

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

Common Sense

Said

Uncommon

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

Blessed

Giving

Wealth

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Quotes by Thomas Chalmers

Thomas Chalmers

… moral evil is its own curse.

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.

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.

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

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, but reproduces something.

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

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

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