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
eye heart tongue
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
may reign rebel
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
wings storm shelter
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
truth-is divides
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
men light grace
He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.
together conscience
A good conscience and a good confidence go together.
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.
grace given trade
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.
men wrath divine-justice
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.
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.
love-is his-love gods-love
The only ground of God's love is his love.
christian wise real
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.
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.
men action christianity
A man full of hope will be full of action.