Adam Clarke (1762–1832) was a British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar. He was born in the townland of Moybeg Kirley near Tobermore in Northern Ireland. He is chiefly remembered for writing a commentary on the Bible which took him 40 years to complete and which was a primary Methodist theological resource for two centuries.
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Happiness
Strong drink is not only the devil’s way into a man, but man’s way to the devil.
—Adam Clarke
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Prayer
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Chance
I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of “too many irons in the fire,” conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many — poker, tongs, and all — keep them all going.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Occupation
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