Adam Clarke Quotes

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.