Thomas Adams Quotes

#1. 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.

Thomas Adams

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

Thomas Adams

#3. 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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#4. We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

Thomas Adams

#5. Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

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

Thomas Adams

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

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#8. 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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#9. Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

Thomas Adams

#10. There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

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#11. 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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#12. Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

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

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#14. Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

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#15. 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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#16. The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

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

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

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

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

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#21. The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

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#22. 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.

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

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

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#25. Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

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#26. Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

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

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#28. Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

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

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

Thomas Adams