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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

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Adam Clarke
Died: 1832
Died: August 26
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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To be filled with God, is a great thing to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.
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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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There is no such thing as chance or accident the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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