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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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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
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South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
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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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An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
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The only ground of God's love is his love.
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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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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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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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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Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
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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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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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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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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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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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