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 Cannons Copy Share Image
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little… — Thomas Brooks Grace 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 Break Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Afflicted Copy Share Image
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate… — Thomas Brooks Flower Copy Share Image
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell. — Thomas Brooks Comparison Copy Share Image
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. — Thomas Brooks Agree 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 Church Copy Share Image
What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon… — Thomas Brooks Christ Copy Share Image
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers.… — Thomas Brooks Answers Copy Share Image
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but… — Thomas Brooks Acceptable 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… — Thomas Brooks Be humble Copy Share Image
“For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint… — Thomas Brooks Brooks Copy Share Image
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is… — Thomas Brooks Bosoms Copy Share Image
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath,… — Thomas Brooks Conscience 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… — Thomas Brooks Blood Copy Share Image
“ It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so… — Thomas Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.… — Thomas Brooks Meditation Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Arithmetic Copy Share Image
Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off… — Thomas Brooks Break Copy Share Image
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the… — Thomas Brooks Breathing Copy Share Image
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater — Thomas Brooks Committing Copy Share Image
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the… — Thomas Brooks Breathing Copy Share Image
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks Affliction Copy Share Image
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not… — Thomas Brooks Faces Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Christ Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Clouds Copy Share Image
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion. — Thomas Brooks Chiefs Copy Share Image
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion. — Thomas Brooks Christ Copy Share Image
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up. — Thomas Brooks Given Copy Share Image
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom. — Thomas Brooks Hurt Copy Share Image
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