53 Quotes by Adam Clarke

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

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.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

When you read, consider that it is Gods Word which you read; and that his faithfulness is pledged to fulfill both its promises and threatenings.

His soul was created in the image of God, i.e., in righteousness and true holiness: and his body was formed out of the dust of the ground.

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.