“The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.”
Source: The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians
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Famous Thomas Adams Quotes
“The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.”
“Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.”
“He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.”
“Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.”
“If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.”
“Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?”
Source: The works of Thomas Adams: being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses
“Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.”
“Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.”
“As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.”
“Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“Better a holy discord than a profane concord.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter