Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

Thomas Brooks
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.

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

Thomas Brooks
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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

Thomas Brooks
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.

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

Thomas 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.

Thomas Brooks