Thomas Brooks
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.Collection: Faith
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
For great is truth, and shall prevail.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Grace
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Blood
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.Collection: Christian
He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.Collection: Security
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.Collection: Men
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Prayer
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.Collection: Prayer
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.Collection: Littles
Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.Collection: Color
Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.Collection: Missing
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.Collection: Taken
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 the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.Collection: Christian
Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.Collection: Clouds
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.Collection: Wings
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.Collection: Heaven
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in deathCollection: Sweet
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.Collection: Prayer
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.Collection: Church
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.Collection: Struggle
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.Collection: Truth Is
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.Collection: Heart
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.Collection: Prayer
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.Collection: Conscience
Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.Collection: Grace
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.Collection: Men
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.Collection: Christian
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greaterCollection: Giving
We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.Collection: Christ
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.Collection: Men
To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.Collection: Grace
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.Collection: Prayer
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.Collection: Prayer
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.Collection: Heart
The only ground of God's love is his love.Collection: Love Is
Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.Collection: Lying
If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.Collection: Faith
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.Collection: Heart
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.Collection: Truth
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.Collection: Watches