Thomas Adams Men Quotations

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

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.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.