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
ADAM CLARKEWhether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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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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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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If 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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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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.
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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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