"Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison,……" — Thomas Brooks
"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 remedies into diseases."
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Thomas Brooks
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95 Quotes by Thomas Brooks
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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have…
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The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is…
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Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.…
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Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is…
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
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God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it…
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit…
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp…
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant,…
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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