"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…"

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Source : Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

Thomas Chalmers

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