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The only ground of God's love is his love.

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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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Love

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There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.
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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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An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
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The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
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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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Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
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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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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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An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
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Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
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That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
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Grace and glory differ very little the one is the seed, the other is the flower grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
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Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
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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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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
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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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Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
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