Christian life Quote by Thomas Brooks

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

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

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

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

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

— Thomas Brooks

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

— Thomas Brooks

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

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

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

— Thomas Brooks

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

— Thomas Brooks

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