Thomas Adams Quotes

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• As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

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  Two, Christian Marriage, Creation

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.84

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• Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

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  Christian, Morning, Light

  "The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians".

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• Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

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  Healing, Sick, Prevention

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• He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

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  Gout, Proud, Ends

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• He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

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  Positive, Bridges, Demand

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• That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

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  Christian, Fall, Blessing

  Thomas Adams (1861). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.391

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• Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

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  Thinking, Self, Devil

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• The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Desire

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• A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

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  Men, May, Election

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.123

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• He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

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  Change, Thinking, Reform

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• No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

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  Men, God Love, Fearful

  Thomas Adams (1861). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.51

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• Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

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  Bait, Hook, Satan

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.236

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• Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

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  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.2

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• There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

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  Eye, Heaven, Dry

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• Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

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  Five Senses, Four, Five

  Thomas Adams (1861). “The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses”, p.95

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• The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

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  Atheist, Believe, Hypocrite

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• Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

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  Inspirational, Passion, Cost

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• The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

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  Inspirational, Bible, Christian

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• If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

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  Horse, Devil, Spurs

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• Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.

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  Sin, Committed, Ifs

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• Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

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  Men, Differences, Faces

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150

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• Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

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  Prayer, Enemy, Ears

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.351

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• Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

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  Home, Mean, Average

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• Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

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  Beauty, Years, Lasts

  Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.3

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• The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

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  Men, Heaven, Camels

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 167, 1895.

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