However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKEEven papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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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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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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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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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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Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
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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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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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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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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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All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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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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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.
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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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