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Top 10 Thomas Adams Quotes

  1. As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
  2. Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.
  3. That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
  4. 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 Him to His face.
  5. Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.
  6. A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
  7. He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
  8. Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
  9. The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
  10. 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 full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

Thomas Adams Short Quotes

  • Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
  • Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
  • Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
  • There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.
  • Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
  • No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
  • Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
  • Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
  • He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
  • He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Thomas Adams Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us. — Thomas Adams

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 do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen. — Thomas Adams

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, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works. — Thomas Adams

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 of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. — Thomas Adams

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 tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame. — Thomas Adams

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 distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence. — Thomas Adams

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it. — Thomas Adams

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 old man's face. — Thomas Adams

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 to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul. — Thomas Adams

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. — Thomas Adams

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. — Thomas Adams

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman. — Thomas Adams

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed. — Thomas Adams

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 pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ. — Thomas Adams

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 verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee. — Thomas Adams

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else. — Thomas Adams

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. — Thomas Adams

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 so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter. — Thomas Adams

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 hardly get in. — Thomas Adams

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well. — Thomas Adams

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 finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body. — Thomas Adams

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse. — Thomas Adams

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 fall. — Thomas Adams

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. — Thomas Adams

Life Lessons by Thomas Adams

  1. Thomas Adams taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to great success, no matter what obstacles may be in the way.
  2. He also showed us that it is possible to achieve greatness through perseverance and resilience, even in the face of failure.
  3. Finally, Thomas Adams demonstrated that a combination of passion and intelligence can lead to groundbreaking discoveries and innovations.
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