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A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

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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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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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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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Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
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An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
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He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
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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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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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It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
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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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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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Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
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He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
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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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In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
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Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
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Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.
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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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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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