Quotes from Thomas Adams
Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
— Thomas Adams
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.
— Thomas Adams
Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.
— Thomas Adams
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
— Thomas Adams
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
— 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
Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.
— 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
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
— 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
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
— Thomas Adams
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
— Thomas Adams