Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

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

A man full of hope will be full of action.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

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.

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.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

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

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

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.

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

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

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

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

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

A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

Truth is mighty and will prevail