Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Chalmers

“If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious organizations. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived. Tell me, where now are all the masters and teachers whom you knew so well in life and who were famous for their learning? Others have already taken their places and I know not whether they ever think of their predecessors. During life they seemed to be something; now they are seldom remembered.”

“The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.”

“To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.”

“Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself.”

“Well, dear, life is a casting off. It’s always that way.”

“Salvation by grace—salvation by free grace—salvation not of works, but according to the mercy of God—salvation on such a footing is not more indispensable to the deliverance of our persons from the hand of justice, than it is to the deliverance of our hearts from the chill and the weight of ungodliness. Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel, and we raise a topic of distrust between man and God.”

“This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.”

“But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?”

“He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.”

“We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.”

“SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.”

“To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.”

“Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.”

“The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Turn where you will—above, below, without, or within—you will find a cross in everything, and everywhere you must have patience if you would have peace within and merit an eternal crown.”

“There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?”

“The past, and its relationship to the present, has always been vital to Miller. 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.”

“It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I’ve done is waste my life.”

“You make mountains out of molehills.”

“BIFF: I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them! 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 any more, and you’re going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!”