Adam Clarke famous quotes

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
-- Adam Clarke

#Prayer #Heart #Christian Inspirational

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
-- Adam Clarke

#Mean #Ideas #Argument

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Memorial #Degrees #Fame

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Angel #Might #Human Nature

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Kings #Islands #Hands

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
-- Adam Clarke

#Perfect #Infinity #Merit

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
-- Adam Clarke

#Humility #Pride #Assuming

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...
-- Adam Clarke

#Christian #Prayer #Heart

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
-- Adam Clarke

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Mean #Men #Progress

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Done #Littles #Christ

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Jesus #Men #Creating

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Evil #Soul #Connections

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Degrees #Saws #Spirit

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Wise #Men #Promise

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Air #Wind #Would Be

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Thinking #Names #Remember

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Real #Ignorance #Men

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
-- Adam Clarke

#Secret #Energy #Action

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Death #Father #Dark

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Men #Race #May

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Fullness #Great Things #Filled

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
-- Adam Clarke

#Death #Sin #Fit

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
-- Adam Clarke

#Real #Ignorance #Causes

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
-- Adam Clarke

#Abuse #Waste #Creation

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Heart #Faithful #Honor

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Happiness #Sacrifice #Self

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
-- Adam Clarke

#Jesus #Honor #Resurrection

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Perfection #Infinite #Source

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
-- Adam Clarke

#Grace #Sin #Grace Of God

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
-- Adam Clarke

#Soul #Praying #States

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Jesus #Strong #Men

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.
-- Adam Clarke

#Law #And Love #Christ

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
-- Adam Clarke

#Scripture #Holy #Duty

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
-- Adam Clarke

#Men #Preacher