Thomas Brooks famous quotes

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

#Christian #Heart #Lazy

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Father #Dark #House

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."
-- Thomas Brooks

#Dust #Doubt #Together

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Perfect #Heaven

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Strong #Cutting #Soul

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Fear #Shadow

God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
-- Thomas Brooks

#Jesus #Prayer #Hearing

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Wise #Horse

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

#Soul #Riches #Gowns

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Wicked #Poison

What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!
-- Thomas Brooks

#Giving #Long #Honor

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Father #Vanity #Years

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Heart #Ears

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

#Church #Doctrine #Should

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Heaven #Secret

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Christ #Prize

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Mother #Spring #Saint

Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Soul #Solitude

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Spiritual #Safety

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Long #Looks

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Judging #Soul

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

#Humble #Soul #Looks

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

#World #Christ

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Confused #Eye #Men

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

#Humility #Men #Joy

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Struggle #Grace #Affliction

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Mother #Safety #Temptation

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Soul #Repentance

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Wicked #Retail

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Truth #Humility #Joy

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Earth #Hell

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Answers #Cold

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Lovely #Christ

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Believe #Breathing

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

#Christian #Men #Answers

Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Temptation #Littles

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

#Heart #Sorrow #Sin

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Littles #Christianity #Contradiction

God is as just as he is merciful.
-- Thomas Brooks

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Blood #Forever #Suffering

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Believe #Humble #Soul

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

#Clouds #Soul #Looks

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

#Heart #Christ

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Wind #Heaven

Satan paints sin with virtues colors.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Color #Satan #Sin

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Names #Soul

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Heart #Holy #Contradiction

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Evil #Affliction #Sin

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Have Faith #Sin

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

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Enemy

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

#Hurt #Wealth #Solomon

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Clouds #Heaven

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Evil #Lord

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Pain #Loss #Honor

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

#Sweet #Bitter #Sin

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Missing #Christ

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

#Prayer #Flower #Giving

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

#Prayer #Breathing #Firsts

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Humility #Men #Judging

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Lasts #Action

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

#Grace #Crowns #Mercy

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

#Christian #Flower #Blessing

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

#Heart #Hands #Being Thankful

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

#Prayer #Heaven #House

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
-- Thomas Brooks

#Life Is Short #Heaven #Rewards

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christ #Chiefs #Made

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

#Humble #Men #Mourning

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Littles #Sin

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

#Humility #Nurse #Grace

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Exercise #Grace #Communion

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

#Two #World #Christ

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Sweet #Peace

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Men #Fire

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Wise #Real

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Prayer #Men #Dumb

It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Distance #Fall #Evil

Truth is mighty and will prevail
-- Thomas Brooks

#Truth Is

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Strong #Heart #Men

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

#Stupid #Heart #Dumb

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.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Christian #Hope #Heart

A man full of hope will be full of action.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Men #Action #Christianity

Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.
-- Thomas Brooks

#Heart #Men #Christ