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 –
Thomas Brooks
April 28, 2015
It is said of Caesar, that ‘he had greater care of his books than of his royal robes,’ for swimming through the waters to escape his enemies, he carried his books in his hand above the waters, but lost his robes. Ah, what are Caesar’s books to God’s books?
– Thomas Brooks –
from the book Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, 1652
January 18, 2015
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 –
October 28, 2014
You had better be a poor man and a rich Christian, than a rich man and a poor Christian. You had better do anything, bear anything, and be anything rather than be a dwarf in grace.
– Thomas Brooks –
October 27, 2014
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret.
– Thomas Brooks –
October 25, 2014
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
– Thomas Brooks –
September 6, 2014
The flowers smell sweetest after a shower;
vines bear the better for bleeding;
the walnut-tree is most fruitful when most beaten;
saints spring and thrive most internally,
when they are most externally afflicted.
Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Manasseh’s chain was more profitable to him than his crown.
All of the stones that came about Stephen’s ears
did but knock him closer to Christ, the corner-stone.
– Thomas Brooks –
July 11, 2014
…my heart is taken with Christ, it is ravished with His love; my soul is burning, my soul is beating towards Christ. Oh, none but Christ, none but Christ! I cannot live in myself, I cannot live in my duties, I cannot live in external privileges, I cannot live in outward mercies; I can live only in Christ, who is my life, my love, my joy, my crown, my all in all. Oh, the more I come to know Him in His natures, in His names, in His offices, in His discoveries, in His visits, in His beauties, the more I find my heart and affections to prize Christ, to run after Christ, to be affected with Christ, and to be wonderfully endeared to Christ!
– Thomas Brooks –
March 29, 2014
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 –