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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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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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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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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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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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Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.
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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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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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There are three things that earthly riches can never do they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.
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It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
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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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Truth is mighty and will prevail
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God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
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Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
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The only ground of God's love is his love.
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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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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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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
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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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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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He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
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An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
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