51 Quotes by Thomas Chalmers

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.

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

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

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

... moral evil is its own curse.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

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.

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.