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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
Thomas Brooks
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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
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Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
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What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
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Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
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When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
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An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
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If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.
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He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
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Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
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Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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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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Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
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Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
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He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
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In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
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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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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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Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
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