WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 30 May 2026 20:24:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Brooks, Thomas – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Brooks, Thomas -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27112/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27112/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:46:58 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27112 Don’t excuse yourself by accusing Satan.


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(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27112/feed/ 0 27112 Brooks, Thomas -- A Cabinet of Jewels https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27774/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27774/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:46:08 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27774 It is certain that great prosperity and worldly glory are no sure tokens of God’s love.


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A Cabinet of Jewels ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27774/feed/ 0 27774 Brooks, Thomas -- Heaven on Earth (1654) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27644/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27644/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:50:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27644 An excellent master is always better than an excellent law. Let your laws be ever so good, if the lawmakers are bad, all will come to nothing.


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Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) English Puritan divine, writer
Heaven on Earth (1654) ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27715/feed/ 0 27715 Brooks, Thomas -- Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1652) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27512/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27512/#respond Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:25:27 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27512 The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.


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Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1652) ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27580/feed/ 0 27580 Brooks, Thomas -- Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, “A Word to the Reader” (1652) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27461/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27461/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:54:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27461 Ah! how many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ, and yet betray Christ; that in their words profess him, but in their works deny him; that bow their knee to him, and yet in their hearts despise him; that call him Jesus, and yet will not obey him for their Lord.


Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) English Puritan divine, writer
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, “A Word to the Reader” (1652) ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27461/feed/ 0 27461 Brooks, Thomas -- The Crown and Glory of Christianity (1662) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/887/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/887/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=887 Great is Truth and it shall prevail.

[Magna est veritas et prævalebit.]


Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) English Puritan divine, writer
The Crown and Glory of Christianity (1662)

Alternate translation: "Truth is mighty and will prevail." ]]> https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/887/feed/ 1 887 Brooks, Thomas -- The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized (1650) https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27810/ https://wist.info/brooks-thomas/27810/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:42:54 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27810 Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent.


Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) English Puritan divine, writer
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