Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

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

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.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

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

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

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

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

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

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

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Truth is mighty and will prevail

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

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

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

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.

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.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

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.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

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

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

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

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

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

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

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

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

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

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

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

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

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

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

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

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

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others the best way to gather is to scatter.

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.