Thomas Chalmers on the Results of Human Depravity

The Sunday feature of the Worldly Saints blog is all about quotes. No commentary from me, no reflection, etc. Just a provocative or informative quote from a saint in church history.

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“The best way to disengage an impure desire is to engage a pure one; the best way to expel the love of what is evil is to embrace the love of what is good instead. To be specific, we must replace the object of our sinful affection with an infinitely more worthy one – God Himself. In this way we do not move from a full heart into a vacuum. Instead we move from a full heart to a heart bursting with fullness. And the explusive power of our new affection weakens and even destroys the power of sin in our heart.”

– Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon entitled “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”