Thomas Adams Quotes

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.

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.

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

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

Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth ... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

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.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

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

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.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

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

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

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

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

Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

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

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

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.

The patient man is merry indeed ... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.