Quotes by Thomas Brooks

About Thomas Brooks:

Thomas Judson Brooks was a British coal miner and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament. A spiritualist, his main achievement was to lead the successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735.
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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Thomas Brooks

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should f...

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[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, whi...

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It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet pray...

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A great lady(Queen Elizabeth )of England , on her dying bed cried out ,"call time again , call time again; a world of wealth for an inch of time !"but time past was never nor could never be recalled.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail.

Thomas Brooks

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

Thomas Brooks

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Thomas Brooks

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

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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 i...

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#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers than to see strength. It is as if you...

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Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

Thomas Brooks

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

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

Thomas Brooks

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

Thomas Brooks

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

Thomas Brooks

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

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There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Thomas Brooks

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith. Acknowledging that you and th...

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Brooks
  • DescriptionLabour Party politician and Member of Parliament
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician