Thomas Brooks
A good conscience and a good confidence go together.Collection: Together
Repentance is the vomit of the soul.Collection: Soul
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.Collection: Heart
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.Collection: Soul
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.Collection: Humility
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.Collection: Mother
Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.Collection: Christian
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.Collection: Strong
He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.Collection: Men
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.Collection: Loss
As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.Collection: Christian
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.Collection: Hurt
An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.Collection: Humble
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for allCollection: Life Is Short
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.Collection: Earth
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.Collection: Heart
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].Collection: Jesus
Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.Collection: Christian
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.Collection: Men
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.Collection: Judging
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.Collection: Humility
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.Collection: Men
The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.Collection: Hands
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.Collection: Christian
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.Collection: Prayer
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.Collection: Exercise
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.Collection: Evil
A man full of hope will be full of action.Collection: Men
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.Collection: Prayer
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.Collection: Distance
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.Collection: Christian
A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.Collection: Clouds