More Quotes by Adam Clarke
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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.
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.
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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.
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
Many 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.
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.
