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The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

In Christ are riches of Justification; in Christ are riches of sanctification, riches of consolation, and riches of glorification...Christ's riches are like the eternal springs of the earth, that cannot dry up, but are and shall be diffused by his Spirit and gospel, until his whole house be filled with them.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

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.

Say to thy soul, O my soul! If thou wilt sin with the multitude, thou must be shut out of heaven with the multitude, thou must be cast down to hell with the multitude.

Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

Heaven on Earth, or a Serious Discourse touching a well-grounded Assurance of Mens Everlasting Happiness.

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

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.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

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

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.