Thomas Adams Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

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

  Thomas Adams

  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

• He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Pain, Blessing

• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Horse, Home

• Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Art, Blessing

• Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Blessing, Ends

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