"It is not he who knows most, nor……" — Thomas Brooks
"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 has most communion with God."
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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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More Communion Quotes
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
— Joyce Brothers
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on…
— William Ames
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
— Watchman Nee
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
— J. G. Holland
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also…
— Aberjhani
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If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to…
— Oswald Chambers
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
— John Owen
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things…
— Oswald Chambers
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