Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the… — Thomas Adams Ache Copy Share Image
It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity. — Thomas Adams Trinity Copy Share Image
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the… — Thomas Adams Alms Copy Share Image
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;… — Thomas Adams Ahab Copy Share Image
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two. — Thomas Adams Christian marriage Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Agents Copy Share Image
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for… — Thomas Adams Blessing Copy Share Image
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. — Thomas Adams Arise Copy Share Image
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. — Thomas Adams Being sick Copy Share Image
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. — Thomas Adams Bridges Copy Share Image
Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and… — Thomas Adams Brightness Copy Share Image
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's… — Thomas Adams Behinds Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Ascent Copy Share Image
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Believe Copy Share Image
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each… — Thomas Adams Change Copy Share Image
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the… — Thomas Adams Brightness Copy Share Image
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but… — Thomas Adams Christ Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. — Thomas Adams Devil Copy Share Image
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same… — Thomas Adams Art Copy Share Image
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman. — Thomas Adams Men Copy Share Image
