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
life-is-short heaven rewards
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
humble men mourning
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
littles sin
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
christian wise horse
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.
prayer heaven secret
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.
religious moving hypocrite
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
truth humility joy
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
confused eye men
Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.
heaven grace looks
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
humility men joy
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
soul riches gowns
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
humble soul looks
An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
littles christianity contradiction
If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.
heart men devil
Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.