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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

Adam Clarke

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.
ADAM CLARKE

Command Direct Exhortation Happy Man Promise Tendency Wise
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Christ Done Humble Indeed Little Man Spoken
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Common Considered Family Human Man Natural Origin Patronymic Race Same Twofold
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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Clay Hardens Hardness Same Softens Sun Wax
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Creating Holiness Jesus Jesus Christ Likeness Man Perfection Restoration
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE

Christian InspirationalTongue Heart Prayer Require
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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Assert Infinite More Perfection Source Suppose
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Absurd Air Cannot Existence God Jesus Christ Saw Wind
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKE

Believe God Nothing Pray Praying Soul State Trust
All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKE

Abuse Creation Creator Creature God Property Robbery Spoil Waste
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

Ascertained Clarkes Easily Extraction Family Norman People
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Care Christian Heart Obstacle People Pharisees Prayer Pride Salvation Scribe Self Vanity
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Busy Dark Death Entry Father Good Little Man Room
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.
ADAM CLARKE

Answer Appear God Knowing Name Particular Patience Person Remember Think Waiting
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 CLARKE

Country Custom Discovered East Island Noticed Old Prevail Still Testament
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
ADAM CLARKE

Bible God Holiness Man Precept Promise Reasonableness Wise

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