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
soul sorrow sin
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
loss soul sin
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.
religious atheist hypocrite
He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.
clouds pleasure pursuit
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.
faith yield heaven
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
dream pain shadow
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!
heaven firsts steps
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.
punishment may whipping
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
security
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
sun watches christ
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
too-late repentance never-too-late
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
conscience
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
heart light fire
As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.