William Adams quotes

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. (William Adams)
So I departed and was free from imprisonment. View quote
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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. View quote
William Adams
Faith is a continuation of reason. View quote
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. View quote
William Adams
Our Lord does not praise the centurion for his amiable care of his servants, nor for his generosity to the Jews, nor for his public spirit, nor for his humility, but for his faith. View quote
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What do we know about the world unseen? What reasonings, what curiosity, what misgivings there have been concerning that impenetrable mystery! Out of this mystery and vagueness and vastness comes the human form of the Divine Redeemer. He assures us that there is an unmixed and endless life, and that all we have to do to secure it is, to trust ourselves to Him who came to declare it and to confer it. View quote
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The only qualification for knowing Divine things is to love them; to know Christ and to see the light of His revelation, we have only to aspire after a filial temper. View quote
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But how shall this love be demonstrated? After what method shall it be expressed? Not by secret musings alone; not by the chanting of religious sonnets alone; not by grateful remembrances of Him - at His table only - but by deeds of love towards those who in a real sense represent Him, because partakers of that nature, our common humanity, which He condescended to assume. View quote
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There is a boundary to the understanding, and when it is reached, faith is the continuation of reason. View quote
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Do you ask why Mary Magdalene was the one chosen to whom first of all Christ should show Himself after the resurrection? This we know - she trusted in Him, and she loved Him; she waited at His sepulchre; she sought, she looked, she wept; and if we would have Christ reveal Himself to us, we, too, must seek and wait and long and trust and love. (William Adams)
Faith is a simple trust in a personal Redeemer. The simpler our trust in Christ for all things, the surer our peace. View quote
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Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection. View quote
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To-day Christ, in a certain sense, is on trial before us all. In these living hearts, in every one to-day, there will be a judgment of some sort passed upon His sacred person. View quote
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From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had. View quote
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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. View quote
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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. View quote
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Lov'est thou me? This is the one test question of our religion; for he that loveth is born of God. View quote
William Adams