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More Quotes by Adam Clarke
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
The 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, 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!
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.
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.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
