{"id":5401,"date":"2015-04-14T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2015-04-13T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T04:36:27","slug":"wisdom-from-thomas-chalmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"WISDOM FROM THOMAS CHALMERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love these! (HT: George Grant)<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;The wider a man&#8217;s knowledge becomes, the deeper should be his humility; for the more he knows the more he sees of what remains unknown. The wider the diameter of light, the larger the circumference of darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cRegardless of how large, your vision is too small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;It is only through faith that we can find our way to love, and only through love that we can find our way to obedience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8220;Live with the high aim and purpose of one who is in training for eternity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cGargantuanism and the care of souls cannot coexist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8220;Repentance is not one act of the mind; it is a course of acting by which we die daily unto sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8220;Obstacles, setbacks, and difficulties are but opportunities for courage and tenacity. Great victories demand fierce resistance. Otherwise, they would not be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8. &#8220;I would pray unto watching&#8211;and watch unto praying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>9. &#8220;Let us standfast and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered; let us be manly and strenuous in the vindication thereof; and yet, let all our things be done with charity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;It is not by irregular efforts, however gigantic, that any great practical achievement is overtaken. It is by the constant recurrence and repetition of small efforts directed to a given object, and resolutely sustained and persevered in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>11. &#8220;Let us be neither over-sanguine nor over-melancholy of immediate results. Our perspective of time is only slowly synchronized to the clock of providence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love these! (HT: George Grant) 1. &#8220;The wider a man&#8217;s knowledge becomes, the deeper should be his humility; for the more he knows the more he sees of what remains unknown. The wider the diameter of light, the larger the circumference of darkness.&#8221; 2. \u201cRegardless of how large, your vision is too small.\u201d 3. &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}