Adam Clarke on assert
Adam Clarke44 quotes“To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”
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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 ClarkeAdam Clarke Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke 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.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke He 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 ClarkeAdam Clarke As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke 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.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke 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.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke 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
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke 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.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
Tim MinchinTim Minchin If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich My work is an act of communication, and it’s important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it.
Adrian PiperAdrian Piper By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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