Thomas Brooks: Trending quotes (page 4)

“The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth.”

Thomas Brooks

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Truth , Heart

“There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.”

Thomas Brooks

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 365.
Quotes from secondary sources

Wisdom , Knowledge , Horse

“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

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 294.

Nature

“What then? For all my sins, His pardoning grace; For all my wants and woes, His loving-kindness; For darkest shades, the shining of God's face; And Christ's own hand to lead me in my blindness. When Caesar gave one a great reward, "This," said he, "is too great a gift for me to receive;" but said Caesar, "It is not too great a gift for me to give." So, though the least gift that Christ gives, in one sense, is too much for us to receive, yet the greatest gifts are not too great for Christ to give.”

Thomas Brooks

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 95.

Love , God , Sense , Christ

“God is as just as He is merciful.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

God

“Christians, bear your faithful ministers upon your hearts when you are wrestling with God. They can tell when they want your prayers, and when they enjoy your prayers. Did you pray more for them, they might do more for your internal and eternal good than they do now.”

Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

God , Faith , Heart

“Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial.”

Thomas Brooks

Heaven On Earth, 1654

Truth

“There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan - than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

God , World

“There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Soul

“Afflictions, they are but as a dark entry into your Father's house; they are but as a dirty lane to a royal palace. Now, tell me, souls, whether it be not very great madness to shun the ways of holiness, and to walk in the ways of wickedness, because of those afflictions which attend the ways of holiness.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Way , Soul , Affliction , Housing

“Such as have made a considerable improvement of their gifts and graces, have hearts as large as their heads; whereas most men's heads have outgrown their hearts.”

Thomas Brooks

Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860

Men , Heart

“An humble soul knows that little sins, if I may so call any, cost Christ his blood, and that they make way for greater; and that little sins multiplied become great, as a little sum multiplied is great; that they cloud the face of God, wound conscience, grieve the Spirit, rejoice Satan, and make work for repentance, &c. An humble soul knows that little sins, suppose them so, are very dangerous; a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, a little staff may kill one; a little poison may poison one, a little leak in a ship sinks it; a little fly in the box of ointment spoils it; a little flaw in a good cause mars it; so a little sin may at once bar the door of heaven and open the gates of hell; and therefore an humble soul smites and strikes itself for the least as well as the greatest.”

Thomas Brooks

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

God , Way , Soul , Hell

“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

Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 81.

Tear , Suffering , Christ

“It is certain that great prosperity and worldly glory are no sure tokens of God's love.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Love , God