Adams Quotes 07

Here are some more Adams quotes. The numbers again refer to pages in A Puritan Golden Treasury.

Divisions

Better a holy discord than a profane concord. 61

Drunkenness and excess

While the wine is in thy hand, thou art a man; when it is in thine head, thou art become a beast. 82

To rot and to riot, differ but one small letter 98

Faith Our heavenly king is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping penitence pleaseth him; charity in the height and humility in the dust pleaseth him; but none of them are welcome to him without faith, as nothing can please him without Christ. There is none that dares venture into his presence without faith; she is that Esther to which God holds out the golden sceptre. Adorn thy soul with this grace; "so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty." 102 (expanded)

It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe. 103

Faith is Rachel's humour: "Give me children or else I die." 104

The want of good works makes faith sick; evil works kill her outright 126

Good deeds are such things that no man is saved for them, nor without them. 127

Naked faith is no faith.