“Satan, that now allures thee to sin, will ere long make thee to see that peccatum est deicidium, sin is the murdering of God; and this will make thee murder two at once, thy soul and thy body, unless the Lord in mercy holds thy hands.”
Source: PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES
“Seriously consider, that sin is of a very deceitful and bewitching nature; sin is from the greatest deceiver, it is a child of his own begetting, it is the ground of all the deceit in the world, and it is in its own nature exceeding deceitful. 'But exhort one another daily, while it is called 'today', lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.' It will kiss the soul, and look enticing to the soul, and yet betray the soul forever. It will with Delilah smile upon us, that it may betray us into the hands of the devil, as she did Samson into the hands of the Philistines. Sin gives Satan a power over us, and an advantage to accuse us and to lay claim to us, as those who wear his badge; it is of a very bewitching nature; it bewitches the soul, where it is upon the throne, that the soul cannot leave it, though it perish eternally by it.”
Source: PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
Source: PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES
“Christ often take the crown off his own head, and puts it upon the head of faith; witness such passages as these, which are frequent in Scripture; ‘Thy faith hath save thee’ Luke 7:50). ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole’ (Matt. 9:22). And no wonder that Christ crowns faith, for of all the graces, faith takes the crown off a man’s own head, and puts it upon the head of Christ.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks
“Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, 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.”
“Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“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!”
“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.”
“How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”
“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.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“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!”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“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.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“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.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“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.”
“He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
“He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.”
Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse
“Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
“Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
“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.”
“Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.”
“He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.”
“The only ground of God's love is his love.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.”
“In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.”
Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse
“Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
“Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“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.”
“A good conscience and a good confidence go together.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.”
Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks
“The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.”
Source: London's lamentations: or, A serious discourse concerning that late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap. Also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames
“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.”
“Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“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.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”
Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
“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”
Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations
