Quotes from Thomas Adams

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams

One eye-witness is better than ten ear-witnesses.

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.

Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.

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

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