Thomas Brooks Quotes

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• Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled…
• It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who…
• The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
• The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
• A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
• Truth is mighty and will prevail
• 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…
• Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
• Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might…
• 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…
• As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.
• If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of…
• A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
• 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 his…
• God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all…
• Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
• God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
• The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
• Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

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