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.
ADAM CLARKEMatthew 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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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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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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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