Quotes from Thomas Adams
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.
- Thomas Adams
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.
- Thomas Adams
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
- Thomas Adams
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.
- Thomas Adams
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
- Thomas Adams
Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
- Thomas Adams
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
- Thomas Adams
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.
- Thomas Adams
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
- Thomas Adams
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.
- Thomas Adams
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
- Thomas Adams
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
- Thomas Adams