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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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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Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
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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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Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.
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Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.
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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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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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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
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There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.
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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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True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
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It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
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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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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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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
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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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Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
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