The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell. — Thomas Brooks First step 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
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
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
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall… — Thomas Brooks Affliction Copy Share Image
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 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
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
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!' — Thomas Brooks Action Copy Share Image
He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives… — Thomas Brooks Atheist Copy Share Image
The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all… — Thomas Brooks Confession Copy Share Image
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most… — Thomas Brooks Assurance Copy Share Image
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are… — Thomas Brooks Calamity Copy Share Image
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling… — 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
“remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on… — Thomas Brooks Life Copy Share Image
Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are… — 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 Being thankful Copy Share Image
“#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines;… — Thomas Brooks Argument Copy Share Image
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal… — 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… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some… — Thomas Brooks Christianity Copy Share Image
He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. — Thomas Brooks Faith Copy Share Image
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks Affliction Copy Share Image
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men. — Thomas Brooks Best of me Copy Share Image
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. — Thomas Brooks Christ 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
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the… — Thomas Brooks Death Copy Share Image
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely. — Thomas Brooks Christ Copy Share Image
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven. — Thomas Brooks Grace Copy Share Image
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men. — Thomas Brooks Humility Copy Share Image
