Thomas Adam

Thomas Adam (February 25, 1701 – March 31, 1784) was a Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

Quotes

• Wee may say of him, as of the Spaniard, Hee is a bad Servant, but a worse Maister.
  • The Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse (London: C. Knight, 1616) p. 6.

• Muslim Spain had written one of the brightest pages in the history of Medieval Europe. Her influence had passed through Provence into the other countries of Europe, bringing into birth a new poetry and a new culture, and it was from here that Christian scholars received what of Greek philosophy and science they had to stimulate their mental activity up to the time of the Renaissance.
  • The Preaching of Islam, 131

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
  • P. 167.

• If I were to live to the world's end, and do all the good that man can do, I must still cry, " Mercy!" Why then should I be unwilling or afraid to die this moment, with a sense of God's pardoning love, when I can have no other claim to salvation if I were to live forever?
  • P. 272.

• We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.
  • P. 582.

External links

• • Private thoughts on religion, 1824 edition with essay by Daniel Wilson
  • The Works of the Rev. Thomas Adam, volume I, 1822 edition
  • The Works of the Rev. Thomas Adam, volume III, 1822 edition
  • An exposition of the four Gospels, volume II, 1827 edition