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.

— Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke Quotes

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.

— Adam Clarke

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

— Adam Clarke

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

— Adam Clarke

All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

— Adam Clarke

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven...

— Adam Clarke

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

— Adam Clarke

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

— Adam Clarke

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

— Adam Clarke

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

— Adam Clarke

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

— Adam Clarke

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.

— Adam Clarke

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

— Adam Clarke

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

— Adam Clarke

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

— Adam Clarke

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.

— Adam Clarke

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

— Adam Clarke

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

— Adam Clarke

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.

— 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.

— Adam Clarke

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

— Adam Clarke

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