However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKENow 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.
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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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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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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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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To 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.
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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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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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