Thomas Adams Quotes

“They advance the colours of Satan, blasphemies and lies, in the very face of God; as if they sent challenges to heaven, and dared their Maker to the combat.”

“How, to the life, doth he explain the mercy of God, and the misery of man, in the lost sheep, in the lost groat, in the lost son!”

“The pangs of the first death are pleasures in respect of the second.”

“Wretched priests, that are indeed the worst diseases; allowing in precept, and approving in practice, the riot of drunkenness, or the heat of lustfulness, or the baseness of covetise, or the frenzy of contention.”

“They desire flesh, and receive quails; they beg bread, and have manna.”

“If you welcome repentance, knocking at your door from God, it shall knock at God's door of mercy for you.”

“For office: faith is the Christian's logic; hope his rhetoric.”

“Faith perceives what is to be done, hope gives alacrity to the doing it.”

“It cannot be denied but the devil did God service in trying Job, winnowing Peter, buffeting Paul, executing Judas; yet shall not all this ease the least torment of his damnation.”

“But certainly God cannot long abide to see that people prosper who cannot abide to see his church prosper.”

“He that will defraud, forswear, bribe, oppress, serve the time, use, abuse all men, all things, swallow any wickedness, cannot escape riches.”

“Every man hath his complaints; and who liveth out of the reach of discontent?”

“As, therefore, every one written in heaven shall be holy on earth, so every one holy on earth is written in heaven.”