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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

Adam Clarke

All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKE

Abuse Creation Creator Creature God Property Robbery Spoil Waste
The 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
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Emotion God Man Pride Revelation Self Teacher Vanity
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
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Absorbed Gift Man Must Nothing Preacher Seem
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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Expect Gospel. Preacher Honor Jesus Jesus Christ Look Resurrection
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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Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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.
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Agent Anything Event Ignorance Immediate Merely Real Signify Truly
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.
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Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.
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Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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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
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.
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Act Communicate Devotion Fault Great Happiness Happy Other Sacrifice Self
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
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

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