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More Quotes by Adam Clarke
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!
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.
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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.
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.
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.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
