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title: "2 Abiding Quotes By Thomas Brooks"
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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/it-is-not-the-bee-s-touching-of-the-flower-that-gathers-honey-but-her/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

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> [Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/every-thing-that-a-man-leans-upon-but-god-will-be-a-dart-that-will/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

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## Other authors on Abiding

## More by Thomas Brooks

> [Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/our-sins-are-debts-that-none-can-pay-but-christ-it-is-not-our-tears/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/remember-this-all-the-sighing-mourning-sobbing-and-complaining-in-the/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/it-is-not-he-who-knows-most-nor-he-who-hears-most-nor-yet-he-who/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/if-it-is-not-strong-upon-your-heart-to-practice-what-you-read-to-what/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/an-idle-life-and-a-holy-heart-is-a-contradiction/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/the-two-poles-could-sooner-meet-than-the-love-of-christ-and-the-love/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/grace-and-glory-differ-very-little-the-one-is-the-seed-the-other-is/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/it-is-our-wisest-and-our-safest-course-to-stand-at-the-farthest/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/saints-spring-and-thrive-most-internally-when-they-are-most/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/grace-is-given-to-trade-with-it-is-given-to-lay-out-not-lay-up/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/a-preacher-s-life-should-be-a-commentary-upon-his-doctrine-heavenly/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/it-is-not-the-bee-s-touching-of-the-flower-that-gathers-honey-but-her/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [“Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/meditate-on-the-unique-relationship-between-christians-psalm-133-1/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/god-hears-no-more-than-the-heart-speaks-and-if-the-heart-be-dumb-god/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

> [Truth is mighty and will prevail](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-brooks/truth-is-mighty-and-will-prevail/)

[Thomas Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-brooks/)

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