Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEDeeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEAs preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
ADAM CLARKEThe 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 CLARKEThe 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
ADAM CLARKEIf you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God
ADAM CLARKENow 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 CLARKEThe Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKEPrayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKEThere is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKEThey who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKEHe 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 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.
ADAM CLARKEIt 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 CLARKEBut 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 CLARKEMan 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 CLARKEVerse 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.
ADAM CLARKE