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 CLARKEThere is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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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Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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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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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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This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
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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.
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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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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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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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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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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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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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