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The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Thomas Chalmers
Love, Heart, Power
Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11

Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

Thomas Chalmers
Heart, Mind, Vacancy
Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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.

Thomas Chalmers
Kindness, Writing, Heart

Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.

Thomas Chalmers
Heart, Thinking, Soul

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