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The only ground of God's love is his love.
— Thomas Brooks
Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.
— 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
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
— 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.
— Thomas Brooks
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
— Thomas Brooks
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.
— 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
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
— Thomas Brooks
Satan paints sin with virtues colors.
— Thomas Brooks
Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.
— Thomas Brooks
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!
— Thomas Brooks
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
— Thomas Brooks
Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
— Thomas Brooks
Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.
— Thomas Brooks
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.
— Thomas Brooks
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
— Thomas Brooks
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
— Thomas Brooks
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
— Thomas Brooks
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
— Thomas Brooks
Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.
— Thomas Brooks
A man full of hope will be full of action.
— Thomas Brooks
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
— Thomas Brooks
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.
— Thomas Brooks
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
— Thomas Brooks
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
— 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
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
— Thomas Brooks
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.
— Thomas Brooks
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
— Thomas Brooks
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
— Thomas Brooks
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
— Thomas Brooks
To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
— Thomas Brooks
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
— Thomas Brooks
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ...
— Thomas Brooks
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
— Thomas Brooks
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.
— Thomas Hood
Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.
— Thomas Brooks
We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.
— Thomas Brooks
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
— Thomas Brooks
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
— Thomas Brooks
Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
— 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.
— Thomas Brooks
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
— Thomas Brooks
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.
— Thomas Brooks
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
— Thomas Brooks
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
— Thomas Brooks
The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks
— Thomas Brooks
Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
— Thomas Brooks
God is as just as he is merciful.
— Thomas Brooks
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
— Thomas Brooks
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
— Thomas Brooks
A good conscience and a good confidence go together.
— Thomas Brooks
If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
— Thomas Brooks
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
— Thomas Brooks
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.
— Thomas Brooks
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
— Thomas Brooks
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
— Thomas Brooks
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
— Thomas Brooks
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
— Thomas Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
— Thomas Brooks