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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!'
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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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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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
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The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
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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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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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It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
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Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
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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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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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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail
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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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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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Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
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The only ground of God's love is his love.
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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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He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
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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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