The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
ADAM CLARKEHe 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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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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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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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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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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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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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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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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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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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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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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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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