They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKEAnything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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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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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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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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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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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.
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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
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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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
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