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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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The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
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He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
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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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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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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
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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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