I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
ADAM CLARKEI have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
ADAM CLARKEBut 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 CLARKEIt 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 CLARKEAs preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
ADAM CLARKEAl its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
ADAM CLARKEThis 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 CLARKEWoe 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 CLARKEHe who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKEThe Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKEPrayer 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.
ADAM CLARKEIf 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 CLARKEFew 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 CLARKEAnything 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 CLARKEIf 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 CLARKEMany 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 CLARKEHowever, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE