Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Adams
“The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.”
topics: Achievement
“Contention is like fire, for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend within. Only herein it transcends fire, for fire begets not matter, but consumes it; debates beget matter, but consume it not.”
topics: Adversity
“A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.”
topics: Apathy
“"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.”
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
“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.”
“We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.”
topics: Death
“Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.”
topics: Death
“Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.”
topics: Death
“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth; the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent; the tavern and ale house benefactor; the beggar's companion; the constable's trouble; his wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his neighbor's scoff; his own shame. In short he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing below a beast, and a monster of a man.”
“It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.”
topics: Encouragement
“It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe.”
topics: Faith
“Our heavenly King is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth Him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping repentance pleaseth Him; but none of them are welcome to Him without faith, as nothing can please Him without Christ.”
“Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.”
topics: Forgiveness
“Good deeds are such things that no man is saved for them, nor without them.”
topics: Good and Evil
“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.”
“Let us be sure that our delights exclude not the presence of God: we may please ourselves so long as we do not displease Him.”
topics: Happiness
“In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it.”
topics: Holiness
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Thomas Adams was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; a Calvinist in theology, he is not accurately described as a Puritan.
Early sermons were Heaven and Earth Reconciled, and The Devil's Banquet. To Montagu he dedicated a work in 1618. In 1629 he collected into a massive folio his occasional sermons, a collection he dedicated to the parishioners of St Benet Paul's Wharf, and to the Lords Pembroke and Manchester. In 1638 appeared a long Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Peter, dedicated to "Sir Henrie Marten, Knt."
His works have been republished in Nichol's Series of Standard Divines (3 vols, 1862), edited by Thomas Smith, and with a life by Joseph Angus, and his Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Peter (1839) by James Sherman.