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Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

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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
Sins
Sin
Secret
Lying
Heart
Nearest
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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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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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He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
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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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