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 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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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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The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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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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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
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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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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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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.
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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.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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.
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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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