When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. Thomas Brooks More Quotes by Thomas Brooks More Quotes From Thomas Brooks The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. Thomas Brooks religiouschristianheart Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold. Thomas Brooks painhonorloss God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you. Thomas Brooks crownsmercygrace 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 sufferingforeverblood The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet. Thomas Brooks dyingworldjesus A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. Thomas Brooks prayerhouseheaven Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself. Thomas Brooks lordevilmen He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. Thomas Brooks baittakenplay Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. Thomas Brooks heartchrist God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at. Thomas Brooks prayerlonglooks Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day." Thomas Brooks caringchristianjesus Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all. Thomas Brooks painjewelsforever God is as just as he is merciful. Thomas Brooks merciful 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. Thomas Brooks safetyspiritualchristian Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. Thomas Brooks flowerblessingchristian Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord. Thomas Brooks breathingprayerfirsts He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. Thomas Brooks christianearsheart Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have. Thomas Brooks trialslossworld Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men. Thomas Brooks humilityjudgingmen Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. Thomas Brooks christiandarkfather
