Quotes by Adam Clarke - Page 1

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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Clay
Sun
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Christian Inspirational
Heart
Prayer
Tongue
Requires
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Grace
Grace Of God
Sin
Condemns
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Duty
Holy
Holy Scriptures
Scripture
Consider
Deeply
Scriptures
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Assuming
Dense
Humility
Mask
Pride
Assume
Frequently
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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Extraction
Ascertained
Easily
Norman
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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Praying
Soul
States
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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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Abuse
Creation
Waste
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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Action
Energy
Secret
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Men
Preacher
Seems
Absorb
Gifts
However
Seem
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Death
Fit
Glory
Sin
Cleansed
Sanctified
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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Causes
Ignorance
Real
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Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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Running
Men
Woe
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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Argument
Ideas
Mean
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Jesus
Christ
Honor
Jesus Christ
Resurrection
Worldly
Gospel
Disciples
Honors
Neither
Preachers
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Done
Faithful
Faithful Servants
Heart
Honor
Spirit
Well Done
God Good Your
God Good Done
Hearts
Servants
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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Wisdom
Infinite
Perfection
Source
Supreme Being
Power More Than
Assert
Suppose
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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Names
Remember
Thinking
Named
Sent
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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Filled
Fullness
Great Thing
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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Contradictory
Eye
Invisible
Hence
Principle
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To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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Filled
Fullness
Great Things
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This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
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Answers
Knowing
Waiting
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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Absurd
Air
Deny
Existence
Wind
Would Be
We Cannot
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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Apostles
Faithful
Holy
Holy Spirit
Inspired
Old Testament
Testament
Contained
Evangelist
Minds
Prophets
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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Abraham
Angel
Christ
Human Nature
Might
Redeemer
Nature Human Human Nature
Angels
Required
Seed
Sinned
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
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Infinity
Merit
Perfect
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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Men
Human Race
May
Race
Considered
Belongs
Composed
Origin
Twofold
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Divine
Infinite
Merit
Price
Purchased
Result
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Mankind
New Testament
Salvation
Scholar
Testament
Author
Eminent
Error
Mixture
Scriptures
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Enemy
Species
Truth Is
Ages
Attack
Maintained
Mighty
Mode
Prevail
Revelation
Stood
Test
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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Jesus
Men
Christ
Creating
Holiness
Restoration
Anew
Fell
Image
Likeness
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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Death
Men
Dark
Father
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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Christ
Done
Littles
Indeed
Reference
Spoken
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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Constant
Credibility
Degrees
Entitled
Holy
Holy Spirit
Lord
Matthew
Our Lord
Saws
Spirit
Account
Attendant
Degree
Influenced
Utmost
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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Degrees
Fame
Memorial
Persons
Public Life
Degree
Embraced
Least
Memorials
Private
Regretted
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Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
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Christian
Heart
Prayer
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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And Love
Christ
Genuine
Holy
Law
Obedience
Remembered
Love God Faith
Apostle
Good Works
Produces
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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Connections
Contagion
Dissolution
Evil
Moral
Moral Evil
Soul
Connection
Detained
Required
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Men
Consequence
Convinced
Infancy
Infancy Is
Manhood
Mean
Pursued
Attained
Watch
Few Men
Let Us
Line
Shall
Soon
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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Happiness
Sacrifice
Self
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Wise
Men
Bible
Direct
Holiness
Promise
Useful
Commands
Precepts
Promises
Proved
Revelation
Tendency
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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Jesus
Men
Apostles
Christ
Followers
Hands
Jesus Christ
Satan
Sin
Strong
God Work Man
Original
Enable
Forward
Holds
Pleased
Prosper
Pull
Trusting
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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Kings
Hands
Islands
Sea
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It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
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Men
Ignorance
Real
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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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Men
Teacher
Pride
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