"It is not the bee's touching of the……" — Thomas Brooks
"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 sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian."
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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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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
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