Thomas Adams Quotes & Sayings

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. — Thomas Adams

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. — Thomas Adams

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

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

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

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

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes. — Thomas Adams

We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works. — Thomas Adams

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

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels? — Thomas Adams

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. — Thomas Adams

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman. — Thomas Adams

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

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. — Thomas Adams

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

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul. — Thomas Adams

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

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

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

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. — Thomas Adams

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

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. — Thomas Adams

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

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

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

Better a holy discord than a profane concord. — Thomas Adams

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. — Thomas Adams

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

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

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. — Thomas Adams

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

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. — Thomas Adams

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. — Thomas Adams