Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers FRSE, was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman"...
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decision steps sufficiency
I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
christian education school
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.
prayer doe praying-to-god
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.
vanity compliment court
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
war hands sovereign
It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.
moving men yesterday
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.
book happy-life men
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.
christian prayer lying
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.
kindness heart writing
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.
christian hands christian-inspirational
Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
men evil forever
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
heart way affection
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
heart mind vacancy
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…
christian self discipline
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