Thomas Brooks Quotes

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The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

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

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

Thomas Brooks
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

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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.

Thomas Brooks
As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

Thomas Brooks
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Thomas Brooks
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

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Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

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

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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].

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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.

Thomas Brooks
An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

Thomas Brooks