"Look, as a painted man is no man,……" — Thomas Brooks
"Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer."
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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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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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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power…
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More Cold Quotes
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested…
— Russell Baker
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
— Bernard Baruch
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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I love cold, rainy weather.
— Catherine Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
— Adele
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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