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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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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.
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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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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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The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.
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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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Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
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Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.
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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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There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.
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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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Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
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If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
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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.
Thomas Brooks
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
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In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
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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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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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If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
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Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
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