All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKEDeeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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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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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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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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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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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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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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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Al 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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