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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blessed giving purpose
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.
fools require
The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
blank cannot moral neutral
But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
education people acquisition
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.
atheist judging atheism
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.
time magnificence eternity
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.
evil moral constitution
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.
passion voice giving
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.
common-sense said uncommon
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
blessed giving wealth
It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.
enthusiasm calm prosperity
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.
baby
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
giving movement regulation
O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.
evil moral curse
... moral evil is its own curse.