Adam Clarke Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.”

“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.”

“The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.”

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

“Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.”

“And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.”

“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.”

“Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.”