It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give. Thomas Chalmers More Quotes by Thomas Chalmers More Quotes From Thomas Chalmers O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements. Thomas Chalmers regulationmovementgiving 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. Thomas Chalmers atheismatheistjudging 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. Thomas Chalmers divinitychristianmen The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection. Thomas Chalmers resurrectioncharacterdeath Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. Thomas Chalmers virtuehabitcharacter The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Thomas Chalmers painhurtanimal It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Thomas Chalmers uncommoncommon-sensesaid 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. Thomas Chalmers passionvoicegiving In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature. Thomas Chalmers voicepracticemen 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 principlesnamesfather Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. Thomas Chalmers soulheartthinking Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle. Thomas Chalmers miracleintellectual 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. Thomas Chalmers infidelityweedgiving 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. Thomas Chalmers blessingdarkcharacter ... moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers cursemoralevil There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters. Thomas Chalmers moralcharacter By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers constitutionmoralevil Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. Thomas Chalmers adversityintegrityenemy Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Thomas Chalmers calmprosperityenthusiasm The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. Thomas Chalmers baby
