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Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) was a prominent English author known for his religious and philosophical writings. His works held a significant place in 17th-century English literature and have had a profound impact on later generations.

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“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.”

Men World Home Lasts Names Religious Habit Gains Atheist Hypocrisy Hypocrite Outrageous

Author:Thomas Brooks

“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!”

World Dream Pain Poor This World Shadow Labor Mere This Life Vain

Book:Heaven On Earth

Source: Heaven On Earth

“Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.”

Knows World Pain Christ Sin Forever Missing Thousand Gold Shining Dear Commodity Can Not Pearls Jewels Rubies

Book:Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

“The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.”

World Jesus Christ Dying Puritan Puritanism

Book:A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold

Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold

“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.”

World Firsts Spirit Church Prayer Lord Trouble Holy Roots Flesh Ghost Breathing Get Back Distress Holy Ghost

Author:Thomas Brooks

“There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.”

Men World Soul Judging Judgment Careful Fearful Righteous

Book:The select works of ... Thomas Brooks

Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks

“Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.”

World Loss Hell Trouble This World Crosses Misery Trials Calamity

Book:A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold

Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold

“The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.”

World Two Christ

Book:Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks

“Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.”

Men World Might Heaven This World Wind Casts Storm Believer Paradise Tempest

Book:Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

“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.”

Men World Doe Remember Christ Evidence Humble Complaining Mourning Righteousness Be Humble Sobbing Overlooking

Book:The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed