Thomas Brooks Quotes

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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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  Pain, Loss, Honor

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

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  Security

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.185, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

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  Jesus, Dying, World

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.189, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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  Blood, Forever, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 81, 1895.

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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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  Christian, Religious, Heart

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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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  Grace, Crowns, Mercy

  Thomas Brooks (1814). “Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women: and a Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women. Or, The Happiness of Being Good Betimes: and the Honour of Being an Old Disciple ...: Also, The Young Man's Objections Answered, and the Old Man's Doubts Resolved”, p.32

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• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

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  Prayer, Long, Looks

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• Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

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  Men, Evil, Lord

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• There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

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  Christian, Wise, Horse

  Thomas Brooks (1799). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.218

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• He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

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  Christian, Heart, Ears

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.173

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

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  Littles, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.36

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• A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

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  Prayer, House, Heaven

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• It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

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  Christian, Sweet, Peace

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.8

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• Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

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  Clouds, Heaven

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• The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

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  Heaven, Firsts, Steps

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.12

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• Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

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  Truth Is, Divides

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• Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.

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  Missing, Christ

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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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  Prayer, Names, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

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• Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

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  Color, Sin, Satan

  "Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks".

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• He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

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  Taken, Play, Bait

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.312

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

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  Humble, Soul, Looks

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

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• In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

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  Wings, Storm, Shelter

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.29

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• A man full of hope will be full of action.

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  Men, Action, Christianity

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.131

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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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  Strong, Cutting, Soul

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores".

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• God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

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  God, Stupid, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2013). “The Secret Key to Heaven: The Call to Closet Prayer”, p.147, Ravenio Books

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