"Every thing that a man leans upon but……" — Thomas Brooks
"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 only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life."
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95 Quotes by Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks has 95 quotes on this site.
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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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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest…
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The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only…
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of…
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
— Samuel Rutherford
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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest,…
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Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The…
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In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to…
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
— J. G. Holland
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