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Upon Quotes by Thomas Brooks
- The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
- Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary…
- 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…
- It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,…
- If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If…
- There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up…
- An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
- 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…
- 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…
- A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
- 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…
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