Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams
Architect and former President of Landscape Architects. He was known for urban planning projects like The Hydrostone and Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth10 September 1871
proud gout ends
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
humble heart stubborn
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
thinking self devil
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
holy discord profane
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
men grace body
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.
horse devil spurs
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
four five-senses senses
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
men well-being wells
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.
men differences faces
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.
men heaven camels
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.
eye eagles illumination
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.
sin committed ifs
Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.
eye heaven dry
There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.
inspirational wise stars
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.