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.

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

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

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

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.

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

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.

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

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

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

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

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.

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

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

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

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.

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.

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

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

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.

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

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

He who sends the storm steers the vessel.

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

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

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

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.

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.