Top 134 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Brooks - Page 3

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

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.

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.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.