Thomas Adams Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the…
• He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made…
• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest…
• Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
• That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
• Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
• Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life…
• 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,…
• A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
• 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…
• 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…
• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge…
• His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
• Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
• He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
• As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

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