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Thomas Adam was a Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

✵ 25. February 1701 – 31. March 1784
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“We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.”

Thomas Adam

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 582.

“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?”

Thomas Adam

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 272.

“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.”

Thomas Adam

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.

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