The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKEThe same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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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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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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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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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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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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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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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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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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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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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