Top 134 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Brooks

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

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

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

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

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

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

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

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.

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.

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

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.

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

God is as just as he is merciful.

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.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

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.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

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.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

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.

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.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.

Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

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.

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

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

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].

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

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

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

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

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

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.

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

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

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.

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.

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.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

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

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.