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
men sin worst
There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.
lying heart secret
Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.
security
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
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.
men grace sin
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
men needs fear-not
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
fall temptation way
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
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.
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.
loss soul sin
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.
soul sorrow sin
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.