Adam Clarke Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

  Adam Clarke

  Teacher, Pride, Men

  Adam Clarke (1837). “The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings”, p.555

• 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

  Evil, Soul, Connections

  Adam Clarke (1842). “Christian Theology”, p.185

• Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

  Adam Clarke

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

• They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

  Adam Clarke

  Soul, Praying, States

  Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.146

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