Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks
Thomas Judson Brooks, MBE JPwas 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1880
prayer men dumb
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.
loss trials world
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
prayer answers cold
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
prayer names soul
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.
love-is his-love gods-love
The only ground of God's love is his love.
prayer men fire
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
prayer breathing roots
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
wings storm shelter
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
loss soul sin
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.
punishment may whipping
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
too-late repentance never-too-late
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
mistakes won
We won (last week), ... But we know we have some mistakes to correct. But the more we get reps, the better we'll get with our assignments.
amount short work
We're anxious, ... But we still have a lot of work to do and a short amount of time.
best gather good ourselves scatter
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter