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

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“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

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

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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

“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.”

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Book:Christian Theology

Source: Christian Theology