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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.

Adam Clarke

Now 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 CLARKE

Absurd Air Cannot Existence God Jesus Christ Saw Wind
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
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
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 CLARKE

Chance Ignorance Man Nature Philosophically Real Reason Strictly
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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Connection Detained Evil Moral Papist Physical Soul
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 CLARKE

Enable Hand Jesus Christ Pleased Prosper Satan Sin Strong
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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Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose
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
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
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Agent Anything Event Ignorance Immediate Merely Real Signify Truly
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
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKE

Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise
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
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
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE

Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
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 CLARKE

Fill Filled Fullness Great Greater Thing

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