More Quotes by Adam Clarke
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.
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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.
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
We 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.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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.
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
