Active Quote by Thomas Brooks

“The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.”

Thomas Brooks

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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 harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold…

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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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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking…

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