"Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are……" — Thomas Brooks
"Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment."
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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
— Georges Bernanos
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
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