Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. Thomas Brooks More Quotes by Thomas Brooks More Quotes From Thomas Brooks It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God. Thomas Brooks communiongraceexercise Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ. Thomas Brooks mourninghumblemen He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite. Thomas Brooks atheistreligioushome A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. Thomas Brooks humilitytruthjoy A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory. Thomas Brooks hopechristianheart Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled. Thomas Brooks grace-and-mercywrathheart Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35]. Thomas Brooks solitudesoulprayer Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. Thomas Brooks graceheavenlooks If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!' Thomas Brooks christiananswersmen The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell. Thomas Brooks iceearthfire Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin. Thomas Brooks temptationlittlesmen When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. Thomas Brooks safetytemptationmother He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. Thomas Brooks security Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. Thomas Brooks tongueeyeheart It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. Thomas Brooks singracemen Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. Thomas Brooks lightfireheart Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians. Thomas Brooks realchristianwise The only ground of God's love is his love. Thomas Brooks gods-lovehis-lovelove-is A good conscience and a good confidence go together. Thomas Brooks consciencetogether Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell. Thomas Brooks hellearth
