All Thomas Adams Quotes
- Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but… All
- He who sends the storm steers the vessel. Inspirational
- Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. Arise
- Conscience is God's deputy in the soul. Conscience
- Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed. Been
- 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… Broader
- 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… All
- No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. Fearful
- 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… Ache
- Better a holy discord than a profane concord. Better
- Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. According
- Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. Bestow
- There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes. Coming
- The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. Chin
- 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… Admiring
- The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a… Ambitious
- Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God… Alms
- Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. Masterpiece
- It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity. Believe