Top 100 Thomas Brooks Quotes
#1. The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks
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#2. God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
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#3. The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.
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#7. Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.
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#8. He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
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#9. Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
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#10. The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
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#11. 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.
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#12. If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
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#13. True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ...
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#14. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
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#15. The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
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#16. The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
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#17. 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.
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#18. He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
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#19. Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
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#20. Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
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#21. Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
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#22. 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.
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#23. When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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#24. We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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
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#27. Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
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#28. The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.
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#29. Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.
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#30. An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.
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#31. The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
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#32. How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
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#33. Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
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#34. The Lord Jesus ... sweetens all other gifts that are bestowed upon the sons of men. He turns every bitter into sweet, and makes every sweet more sweet.
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#35. 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.
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#36. The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.
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#39. God's hearing of our prayers doth 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 acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
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#40. Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
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#41. The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
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#42. He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
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#43. A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
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#44. A good conscience and a good confidence go together.
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#45. Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
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#46. Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
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#47. 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.
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#48. A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
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#49. Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
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#50. Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
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#52. He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
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#53. What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
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#54. 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.
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#55. God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.
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#56. Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
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#59. Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!
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#60. God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
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#62. In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
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#63. Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in the world that are good but not pleasant and others that are pleasant but not good. But to live in peace is both pleasant and good.
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#64. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.
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#65. Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. We're all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.
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#69. Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.
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#70. There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
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#71. Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
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#72. An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
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#73. A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.
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#74. 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.
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#75. When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
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#76. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
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#79. Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.
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#80. Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
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#83. It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.
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#84. Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.
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#85. There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men.
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#86. The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
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#87. A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
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#88. What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!
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#89. There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.
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#90. Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
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#91. Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.
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#92. He who puts on a religious demeanor 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 unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.
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#93. Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
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#94. 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.
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#95. The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
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#99. That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
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