Quotes from 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.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks

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

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

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.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

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.

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.

Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

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;

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

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.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.