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
pain loss honor
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
prayer long looks
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.
men perfect heaven
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
humility men judging
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
father dark house
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
blood forever suffering
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.
world christ
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
christian flower blessing
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
christian heart lazy
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
grace sin mark
To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
conscience
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
giving way sin
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
sun watches christ
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.