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It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
Politician
Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
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It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
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Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
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God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
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The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.
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Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
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Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
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Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
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Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.
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God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
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Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.
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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
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An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
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God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
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It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be but the sincerity of them he looks at.
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Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.
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