Thomas Brooks (Puritan) - Christ Quotes

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Oh that you would arise in Christ's strength, and do what possibly you can for God, though you cannot do what you would and what you should!

Thomas Brooks
There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These men's conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a man's justification.

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There are five things that God will never sell at a cheap rate — Christ, truth, his honour, heaven, and assurance.

Thomas Brooks
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
Ah, beloved, have not you need to improve your time, who have much work to do in a short time: your souls to save, a God to honour, a Christ to exalt, a hell to escape, a race to run, a crown to win, temptations to withstand, corruptions to conquer, afflictions to bear, mercies to improve, and your generation to serve.

Thomas Brooks
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.

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