Top 31 Thomas Chalmers Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Thomas Chalmers

#1. Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter.

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

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#3. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

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#4. 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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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

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

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#10. 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 vulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

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

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#12. 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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#13. 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.

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

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#23. Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

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#24. 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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