The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls. — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
