They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
ADAM CLARKEThe custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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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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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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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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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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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
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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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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.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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