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Ambition Gilded Quotes by Thomas Brooks

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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…

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Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but…

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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…

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It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,…

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If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?…

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An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

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The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

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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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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the…

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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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Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

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A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

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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…

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