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He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
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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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.
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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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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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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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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
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