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 CLARKEMan 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 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 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 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.
ADAM CLARKEIf you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God
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 CLARKETo suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
ADAM CLARKEWe communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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 CLARKEThe 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
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 CLARKEThe same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
ADAM CLARKEEven 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.
ADAM CLARKEThere is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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 CLARKEAll abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
ADAM CLARKE