Thomas Brooks: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Precepts may instruct, but examples persuade.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

“The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.”

Thomas Brooks

page 87
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Heart

“Certainly, those persons that shall deny sanctification to be a most sure, sweet, and comfortable evidence of man's justification, they must not only blot out, and abolish the epistles of James and John, but must also raze out and abolish all those evangelical promises of grace and mercy, and of happiness and blessedness, that are made to such persons as are invested, enriched, and bespangled with the several graces of the Holy Spirit.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Personality , Happiness

“We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 589.

Love , Christ

“Ah! How many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ, and yet betray Christ; that in their words profess him, but in their works deny him; that bow their knee to him, and yet in their hearts despise him; that call him Jesus, and yet will not obey him for their Lord”

Thomas Brooks

from: A Word To The Reader
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Kiss , Heart , Christ

“Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 395.

Love , Strong , Christ

“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

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 245.

Faith , Feeling , Sense

“Oh that you would arise in Christ's strength, and do what possibly you can for God, though you cannot do what you would and what you should!”

Thomas Brooks

The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

God , Christ

“Say to thy soul, O my soul! If thou wilt sin with the multitude, thou must be shut out of heaven with the multitude, thou must be cast down to hell with the multitude.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Soul , Hell

“The number of difficulties makes the Christian's conquest the more illustrious. A gracious man should be made up all of fire, overcoming and consuming all opposition, as fire does the stubble. All difficulties should be but whetstones to his fortitude.”

Thomas Brooks

pg.50, 1860 edition
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

“Assurance makes most for your comfort, but holiness makes most for God's honor…Assurance is the daughter of holiness…The surest and shortest way to assurance is to wrestle and contend with God for holiness…”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

God , Way , Daughters

“Such as diligently search the Scripture shall find that true blessedness, happiness, and salvation is attributed to several signs: sometimes to the fear of God, sometimes to faith, sometimes to repentance, sometimes to love, sometimes to meekness, sometimes to humility, sometimes to patience, sometimes to poverty of spirit, sometimes to holy mourning, sometimes to hungering and thirsting after righteousness; so that if a godly man can find any one of those in himself, he may safely and groundedly conclude of his salvation and justification, though he cannot see all those signs in him.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Love , Hunger , God , Fear

“Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.”

Thomas Brooks

The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665

“One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 391.

Sadness , Disease , Soul , Question

“He who would to the purpose do a good action, must not neglect his season.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Season

“There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These men’s conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a man’s justification.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Men , God , Hell , Heart

“Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 171.

“The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 16.

Soul , Confidence , Christ

“Many are now dropped into hell that have formerly presumed of their going to heaven.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Hell

“The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God…the most holy men have always been the most humble men…If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.”

Thomas Brooks

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Men , God , Lie , Soul