Thomas Brooks Quotes - Page 5

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

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

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

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

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

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

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.

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.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

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.

Truth is mighty and will prevail

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

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

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

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