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.
ADAM CLARKETo 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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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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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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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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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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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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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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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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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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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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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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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