Thomas Brooks Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

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

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

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

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.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.

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

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

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.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

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

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.

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.

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

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.