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Quotes by Thomas Brooks
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.— filed under Affliction
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.— filed under Ambition
The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.— filed under Assurance
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— filed under Christ the Saviour
What then? For all my sins, His pardoning grace; For all my wants and woes, His loving-kindness; For darkest shades, the shining of God's face; And Christ's own hand to lead me in my blindness. When Cæsar gave one a great reward, "This," said he, "is too great a gift for me to receive; " but said Cæsar, "It is not too great a gift for me to give." So, though the least gift that Christ gives, in one sense, is too much for us to receive, yet the greatest gifts are not too great for Christ to give.— filed under Christ's Fullness
God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding.— filed under Christian Service
Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.— filed under Cross Bearing
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.— filed under Devotion
Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.— filed under Faith
Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.— filed under Faith In Christ
Still dost thou wait for feeling? Dost thou say, "Fain would I love and trust, but hope is dead; I have no faith, and without faith, who may Rest in the blessing which is only shed Upon the faithful? I must stand and wait." Not so. The Shepherd does not ask of thee Faith in thy faith, but only faith in Him. And this He meant in saying, "Come to me!" In light or darkness seek to do His will, And leave the work of faith to Jesus still. Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.— filed under Feeling
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. -— filed under Growth In Grace
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.— filed under Growth In Grace
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.— filed under Knowledge
Those who are weak in grace dwell more upon their sins than upon the Saviour; more upon their misery than upon free grace and mercy; more upon that which may feed their fears than upon that which may strengthen their faith; more upon the cross than the crown. One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.— filed under Looking To Jesus
Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.— filed under Love To Christ And God
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.— filed under Mercy
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.— filed under Obedience
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.— filed under Prayer
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.— filed under Prayer
Continuing instant in prayer." The Greek is a metaphor taken from hunting dogs that never give over the game till they have got their prey.— filed under Prayer
Private prayer is so far from being a hindrance to a man's business, that it is the way of ways to bring down a blessing from heaven upon it.— filed under Prayer
If any prayer be a duty, then secret prayer must be superla. tively so, for it prepares and fits the soul for all other supplication.— filed under Prayer
God's hearing of our prayers does not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are accepted in the Beloved..— filed under Prayer
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. Sinners, remember this : It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps you from a blessed closing with the Saviour.— filed under Pride
Riches got by deceit, cheat no man so much as the getter. Riches bought with guile, God will pay for with vengeance. Riches got by fraud, are dug out of one's own heart, and destroy the mine. Unjust riches curse the owner in getting, in keeping, in transmitting. How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!— filed under Riches
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.— filed under Security
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. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all. -— filed under Security
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.— filed under Selfishness
There is the seed of all sins of the vilest and worst of sins - in the best of men.— filed under Sin
Multitudes are lost by cherishing some secret sin, that is not only hidden from others, but, from want of searching their own hearts, even from themselves. The essence of all wickedness is a forsaking of God. Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.— filed under Sin
Though the scorpion be little, yet will it sting a lion to death ; and so will the least sin the sinner, unless pardoned by the blood of Christ.— filed under Sin
We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.— filed under Trust In Christ