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He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

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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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Truth is mighty and will prevail
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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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He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.
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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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Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be but the sincerity of them he looks at.
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Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
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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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Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
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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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