Thomas Brooks Quotes about Soul

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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.

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

Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

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

Thomas Brooks

Humble, Soul, Looks

Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

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

Thomas Brooks

Clouds, Soul, Looks

Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.355

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

Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.249

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

Thomas Brooks

Soul, Repentance

Thomas Brooks (1735). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores. ... By Thomas Brooks”, p.44

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

Thomas Brooks

Soul, Sorrow, Sin

Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.12

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

"Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores".

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

Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.11

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

Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.460