Thomas Chalmers: Doing

Thomas Chalmers was Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Live for something! Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with, year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.”

Thomas Chalmers

Source: Misattributed, P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). This is actually a quote from The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced (1855) by John Harvey

Love , Star , Time , Heart

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 83.

Disease , Feeling , Thinking , Christ

“I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness. I desire from the abyss of my own nothingness and vileness to cry unto God that He might cause me to do as I ought, and to be as I ought.”

Thomas Chalmers

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 331.

God , Lie , Feeling , Heart

“The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.”

Thomas Chalmers

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 497.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 573.

God , Time , Happiness

“The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for”

Thomas Chalmers

actually a quote from The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures by George Washington Burnap (1848) (p.99 Lecture IV)
Misattributed

Happy , Hope , Love , Life