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• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Safety, Temptation

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.233

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• If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Men, Answers

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• What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

  Thomas Brooks

  Long, Giving, Honor

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1652.

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• What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

  Thomas Brooks

  Dream, Pain, Shadow

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Repentance

  Thomas Brooks (1735). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores. ... By Thomas Brooks”, p.44

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2001). “Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 5 of 6”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Lasts, Action

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.198

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• A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

  Thomas Brooks

  Together, Conscience

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Grace And Mercy, Wrath

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wind, Heaven

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.3

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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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  Religious, Moving, Hypocrite

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.15

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Father, Vanity, Years

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.144

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• If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Heart, Men

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Fire, Ice, Earth

  Thomas Brooks (1670). “London's lamentations: or, A serious discourse concerning that late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap. Also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames”

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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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  Two, World, Christ

  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.251

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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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Fire

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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

  Hands, Grace, Affliction

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations”, p.91

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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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  Prayer, Soul, Solitude

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.11

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• There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Grace, Littles

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.102

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• To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Grace, Sin, Mark

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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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  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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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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  Men, Judging, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.460

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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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  Watches, Sun, Christ

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.13

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• Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Eye, Tongue

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.2

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• God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Heaven, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.223

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