Best Thomas Brooks Quotes & Sayings

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

I said (while The moon's smile Played o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss,) "The moon looks "On many brooks, "The brook can see no moon but this;"[1] — Thomas Moore

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

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

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who 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

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

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

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

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

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

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. — Thomas Hood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. — Thomas Gray

A great lady(Queen Elizabeth )of England , on her dying bed cried out ,"call time again , call time again; a world of wealth for an inch of time !"but time past was never nor could never be recalled. — Thomas Brooks

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

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

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. — Thomas Brooks

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

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

There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men. — Thomas Brooks

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience. — Thomas Brooks

You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God. — Thomas Brooks

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

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

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. — Thomas Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled. — Thomas Brooks