Thomas Adams Quotes

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

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.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.