“I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.”

—  Thomas Chalmers

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 186.

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Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of S… 1780–1847

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