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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.
Thomas Brooks
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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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Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
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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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Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
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That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
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Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
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Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
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An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
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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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Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
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An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
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Grace and glory differ very little the one is the seed, the other is the flower grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
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If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
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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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Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
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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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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
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