Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
ADAM CLARKEWoe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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.
ADAM CLARKEThey who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
ADAM CLARKEWhether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKEAll abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKEPride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKEAnything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men’s ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
ADAM CLARKEVerse 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.
ADAM CLARKEThey 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!
ADAM CLARKEMultitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
ADAM CLARKEPrayer 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 CLARKEThe same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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.
ADAM CLARKEAl 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 CLARKEDeeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKEIt 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
ADAM CLARKE