“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
“Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“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
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
“His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.”
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