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The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks -- Thomas Brooks
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God. -- Thomas Brooks
We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much. -- Thomas Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. -- 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
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. -- 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
Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness. -- 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
Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward. -- Thomas Brooks
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- 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! -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. -- Thomas Brooks
Satan paints sin with virtues colors. -- Thomas Brooks
A man full of hope will be full of action. -- Thomas Brooks
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace. -- Thomas Brooks
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. -- Thomas Brooks
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. -- Thomas Brooks
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow. -- Thomas Brooks
Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie. -- Thomas Brooks
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater -- 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
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others. -- Thomas Brooks
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell. -- 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
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]. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet. -- Thomas Brooks
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. -- Thomas Brooks
Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross. -- Thomas Brooks
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ... -- Thomas Brooks
Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men. -- Thomas Brooks
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces. -- Thomas Brooks
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven . -- 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! -- Thomas Brooks
God is as just as he is merciful. -- Thomas Brooks
You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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 -- Thomas Brooks
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death -- 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. -- Thomas Brooks
The only ground of God's love is his love. -- 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
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. -- Thomas Brooks
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion. -- Thomas Brooks
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb. -- 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 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. -- Thomas Brooks
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! -- 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
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. -- Thomas Brooks
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. -- 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
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. -- Thomas Brooks
For great is truth, and shall prevail. -- 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
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. -- Thomas Brooks
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. -- Thomas Brooks
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. -- Thomas Brooks
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; -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. -- Thomas Brooks
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy. -- Thomas Brooks
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. -- Thomas Brooks
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown. -- Thomas Brooks
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. -- Thomas Brooks
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint. -- Thomas Brooks
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. -- Thomas Brooks
A good conscience and a good confidence go together. -- 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
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. -- 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
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise. -- Thomas Brooks
A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him. -- Thomas Brooks
Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds. -- Thomas Brooks
Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all. -- Thomas Brooks
There is the seed of all sins
of the vilest and worst of sins
in the best of men. -- Thomas Brooks
Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion. -- Thomas Brooks
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up. -- Thomas Brooks
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. -- Thomas Brooks
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience. -- Thomas Brooks
To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. -- 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
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls. -- Thomas Brooks
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against. -- Thomas Brooks
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. -- Thomas Brooks
Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance. -- Thomas Brooks
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. -- Thomas Brooks
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all. -- Thomas Brooks
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. -- Thomas Brooks
Repentance is the vomit of the soul. -- Thomas Brooks
Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand. -- Thomas Brooks
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. -- Thomas Brooks