Thomas Brooks Quotes
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The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
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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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The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
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The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
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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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Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
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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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Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
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Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
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The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.
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Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.
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Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
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Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
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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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Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
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True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
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Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
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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.
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Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
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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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Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.
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In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
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There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
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It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
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If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
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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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