Clergyman's

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
- Thomas Chalmers

I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? ""Come unto me."" Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.
- Thomas Chalmers

I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? ""Come unto me."" Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.
- Thomas Chalmers

This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
- Thomas Chalmers

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.
- Thomas Chalmers

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 v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.
- Thomas Chalmers

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

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Thomas Chalmers

Be assured, my dear Anne, that it is only by taking our lesson from God and doing the will of God, that we can either please Him in time, or be happy with Him in eternity.
- Thomas Chalmers

The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
- Thomas Chalmers