Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Chalmers
“As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.”
“I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life”
“On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you”
“Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?”
“God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.”
“He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back--that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.”
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“HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-- to come out number-one man.”
“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I’m constantly lowering my ideals . . .”
“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.”
“Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?”
“He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.”
“My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well with you. Your tardiness in turning to prayer is the greatest obstacle to heavenly consolation, for before you pray earnestly to Me you first seek many comforts and take pleasure in outward things. Thus, all things are of little profit to you until you realize that I am the one Who saves those who trust in Me, and that outside of Me there is no worth-while help, or any useful counsel or lasting remedy.”
“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.”
“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.”
“I’m one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn’t raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I’m not bringing home any prizes anymore and you’re going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!”
“to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what”
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Thomas Chalmers, was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman".