"There is more evil in the least sin……" — Thomas Brooks

"There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction."

— Thomas Brooks

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95 Quotes by Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have…
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is…
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.…
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is…
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it…
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit…
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp…
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant,…

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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