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 –
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 –
March 25, 2013
God’s holiness and His nature are not two things, they are but one. God’s holiness is His nature, and God’s nature is His holiness.
– Thomas Brooks –
October 29, 2011
The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.
– Thomas Brooks –
September 29, 2011
Ah, sirs, holiness is a flower that grows not in Nature’s garden. Men are not born with holiness in their hearts, as they are born with tongues in their mouths: holiness is a divine offspring: it is a pearl of great price, that is to be found in no nature but a renewed nature, in no bosom but a sanctified bosom.
– Thomas Brooks –