More Quotes by Adam Clarke
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.
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.
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.
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!
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
