Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEMany 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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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 must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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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.
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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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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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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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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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