Thomas Brooks Quotes

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The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

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Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

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Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

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Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

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Heaven on Earth, or a Serious Discourse touching a well-grounded Assurance of Mens Everlasting Happiness.

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Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

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God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

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Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

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How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

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There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

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Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

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For (magna est veritas et praevalebit) great is truth, and shall prevail.

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Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

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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 it shall be but short.

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There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

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He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

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Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

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Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

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Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

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Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

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Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

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There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

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A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

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There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.

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