Thomas Brooks quotes

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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.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

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.

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.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

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.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

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.

There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.