Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
