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 –
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 –
February 16, 2014
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 –
August 16, 2013
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans…
– Thomas Brooks –