Adam Clarke Quotes

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

All that seems earth is hell or heaven.

My thing is, get Jesus to come and live inside, and let Him start cleaning house.

I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently sinful and carries sin and needs to be cleaned in order for it to be all right and all good with its creator, I just think that's an absurd notion.

The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.