Top 35 Adam Clarke Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.”

— Adam Clarke

2. “The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.”

— Adam Clarke

3. “Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man’s heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven...”

— Adam Clarke

4. “Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.”

— Adam Clarke

5. “As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.”

— Adam Clarke

6. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

7. “All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.”

— Adam Clarke

8. “Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.”

— Adam Clarke

9. “To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”

— Adam Clarke

10. “Man may be considered as having a twofold origin – natural, which is common and the same to all – patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.”

— Adam Clarke

11. “Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

— Adam Clarke

12. “Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.”

— Adam Clarke

13. “There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”

— Adam Clarke

14. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

15. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

16. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

17. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

18. “If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.”

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19. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

20. “The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

— Adam Clarke

21. “I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instrumental music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. This is the abuse of music, and I here register my protest against all such corruption of the worship of the author of Christianity.”

— Adam Clarke

22. “Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”

— Adam Clarke

23. “Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”

— Adam Clarke

24. “It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.”

— Adam Clarke

25. “But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”

— Adam Clarke

26. “Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.”

— Adam Clarke

27. “Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.”

— Adam Clarke

28. “Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.”

— Adam Clarke

29. “Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.”

— Adam Clarke

30. “He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.”

— Adam Clarke

31. “However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.”

— Adam Clarke

32. “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.”

— Adam Clarke

33. “This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.”

— Adam Clarke

34. “Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.”

— Adam Clarke

35. “I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

— Adam Clarke

36. “They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.”

— Adam Clarke

37. “Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.”

— Adam Clarke