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Adam Clarke, a figure from 1760 to 1832, whose specific occupation and category are unknown.

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“It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.”

Men Real Reason Causes Chance Events Ignorance Accidents Agents Evident

Author:Adam Clarke

“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Men Littles Death Father House Dark Rooms Fairs Passing Passings Glorious Good Man Entertaining Entry Passing Through

Author:Adam Clarke

“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!”

Source: 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

“Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.”

Men Running Refuse Cease Woe

Book:The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments

Source: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments

“If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.”

Ifs Men Hands Spirit Jesus Strong Christ Sin Jesus Christ Originals Satan Followers Apostles

Book:The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher

Source: The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher

“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.”

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Author:Adam Clarke

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

Men Seems Preacher

Book:An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

Source: An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

“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.”

Men Humans May Whole Natural Common Race Various Human Race

Book:An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

Source: An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

“Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”

Men Mean Said Used Lines Watches Progress Consequence Convinced Manhood Pursued Infancy Infancy Is

Book:An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

Source: An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age

“This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.”

Men States Jesus Lost Christ Creating Perfection Holiness Restoration Restoring

Book:Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace

Source: Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace

“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

Men Wise Holy Promise Direct Command Tendencies Revelations Holiness Reasonableness

Book:Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon

Source: Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon