“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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