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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.

Adam Clarke

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.
ADAM CLARKE

Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
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 CLARKE

Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
ADAM CLARKE

Excellencies Immutable Infancy Man Mean Progress Watch
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Cease God Man Refuse Run Running Send Woe
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE

Blessing Condemns God Grace Humble Show Sin
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKE

Accident Cause Ignorance Merely Real Signify Some Word
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 CLARKE

Faithful Servant God Heart Honor Spirit
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKE

Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Abraham Angel Expiation Human Nature Jesus Christ might People Redeemer Seed
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
ADAM CLARKE

Action Allow Energies Energy Faith Happiness Secret Stagnate Trust
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 CLARKE

Arrived Degree Eminence Fame Memorial Person Private Public Regretted Written
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
ADAM CLARKE

Clay Hardens Hardness Same Softens Sun Wax
Man 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 CLARKE

Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold

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