Quotes by Adam Clarke

About Adam Clarke:

Adam Clarke was a British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar. He was born in the townland of Moybeg Kirley near Tobermore in Northern Ireland.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Adam Clarke

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

Adam Clarke

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Adam Clarke

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Adam Clarke

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Adam Clarke

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Adam Clarke

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

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Adam Clarke

I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instrumental music in the hou...

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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

Author Bio

  • NameAdam Clarke
  • DescriptionBritish theologian
  • Born1760
  • DiedAugust 16, 1832
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheologian