Quotes by Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams (1583–1652) — Prediger und theologischer Schriftsteller · anglikanisch (calvinistisch) · England
Thomas Adams (1583–1652) war ein englischer Prediger und theologischer Schriftsteller der Church of England, der nach Stationen auf dem Land vor allem in London wirkte. Er verband eine calvinistische Theologie mit der Treue zur anglikanischen Bischofsverfassung und wurde für seine sprachmächtigen, moralisch scharfen Predigten und Bibelkommentare bekannt. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnen seine Texte vor allem als bildreiche Auslegungen mit prägnanten Aphorismen zur persönlichen Glaubenspraxis.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness, Wisdom & Understanding, Temptation & Struggle, Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Service & Love of Neighbour
Quotes by Thomas Adams
He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
Thomas Adams
He that demands mercy, and shows none, ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
Thomas Adams
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it.
Thomas Adams
Riches and contentedness are like two buckets; while one comes up full the other goes down empty.
Thomas Adams
Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Thomas Adams
The law may express sin but it cannot suppress sin.
Thomas Adams
It is rashness to search, godliness to believe, safeness to preach, and eternal blessedness to know the Trinity.
Thomas Adams
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
Thomas Adams
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
Thomas Adams
It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe.
Thomas Adams
Such is the immutability of truth, the patrons of it make it not greater, the opposers make it not less; as the splendour of the sun is not enlarged by them that bless it, nor eclipsed by them that hate it.
Thomas Adams
Despair is hope completely dead; presumption is hope completely mad.
Thomas Adams
It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.
Thomas Adams
True obedience hath no lead at its heels.
Thomas Adams
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
Thomas Adams
Our heavenly King is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth Him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping repentance pleaseth Him; but none of them are welcome to Him without faith, as nothing can please Him without Christ.
Thomas Adams
All our pieces of gold are but current to the grave; none of them will pass in the future world. Therefore as merchants when they travel make over their monies here, to receive them by bills of exchange in another country; let us do good with our goods while we live, that when we die, by a blessed bill of exchange, we may receive them again in the Kingdom of heaven (Luke 16:9). To part with what we cannot keep, that we may get that we cannot lose, is a good bargain. Wealth can do us no good, unless it help us toward heaven.
Thomas Adams
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
Thomas Adams
The Word of life may be so distorted from the life of the Word till it becomes the food of death.
Thomas Adams
No man must let the tenant out of the tenement till God the landlord calls for it.
Thomas Adams
“Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.
Thomas Adams
All are like actors on a stage, some have one part and some another, death is still busy amongst us; here drops one of the players, we bury him with sorrow, and to our scene again: then falls another, yea all, one after another, till death be left upon the stage. Death is that damp which puts out all the dim lights of vanity. Yet man is easier to believe that all the world shall die, than to suspect himself.
Thomas Adams
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Sources: oxforddnb.com, apuritansmind.com, wikipedia.org, radford.edu
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