Thomas Brooks: Quotes about men

Thomas Brooks was English Puritan. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“Sins against God's mercy will bring the greatest and sorest judgments upon men's heads and hearts. Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God , Justice , Heart

“Christ doth not love believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself. Now, men will give as they love: 1 Sam. 1:4, 5, ‘And Elkanah gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all his sons and daughters, portions, but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved her.’ In the Hebrew it is, ‘he gave her a gift of the face;’ that is, a great, an honourable gift. Men look upon great and honourable gifts with a sweet and cheerful countenance; so the gifts that Jesus Christ gives to believers are the gifts of the face, that is, they are the greatest gifts, the honourablest gifts, the choicest gifts, gifts fit for none but a king to give.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Love , Men , Christ , Daughters

“The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.”

Thomas Brooks

A Cabinet of Jewels

Men , World , Soul

“I could heartily wish that you and all others concerned in this sad loss, were more taken up in minding the happy exchange that she hath made, than with your present loss. She hath exchanged earth for heaven, a wilderness for a paradise, a prison for a palace, a house made with hands for one eternal in the heavens (2 Cor 5:1-2). She hath exchanged imperfection for perfection, sighing for singing, mourning for rejoicing, prayers for praises, the society of sinful mortals for the company of God, Christ, angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, Heb 12:22-24; an imperfect transient enjoyment of God for a more clear, full, perfect, and permanent enjoyment of God. She hath exchanged pain for ease, sickness for health, a bed of weakness for a bed of spices, a complete blessedness. She hath exchanged her brass for silver, her counters for gold, and her earthly contentments for heavenly enjoyments.”

Thomas Brooks

A String of Pearls

Men , God , Pain , Health

“God has ends and designs in giving evil men outward mercies and present rest from sorrows and sufferings that cause saints to sigh.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God , Suffering , Evil

“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God

“God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed.”

Thomas Brooks

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

Men , God , Evil

“Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent.”

Thomas Brooks

The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized

Men , World , Time

“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

“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

“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