Thomas Adams (clergyman) Quotes

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His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

Thomas Adams
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.

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

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

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

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

Thomas Adams
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.

Thomas Adams
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.

Thomas Adams
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

Thomas Adams
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.

Thomas Adams
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Thomas Adams
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

Thomas Adams