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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Thomas Brooks

1608–1680 England

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Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

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There is the seed of all sins—of the vilest and worst of sins—in the best of men.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

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The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

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

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Brooks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.