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“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”
― Thomas Brooks

“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“For a close, remember this, that 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 all.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who 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.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“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.”
― Thomas Brooks

“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 all ”
― Thomas Brooks

“Repentance is the vomit of the soul.”
― Thomas Brooks

“#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers than to see strength. It is as if you use a magnifying glass when looking for weakness and a telescope when looking for grace. Brooks warns, "Sin is darkness, grace is light; sin is hell, grace is heaven; and what madness is it to look more at darkness than at light, more at hell than at heaven." Indeed.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.”
― 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? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.”
― Thomas Brooks, The complete works of Thomas Brooks

“#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith. Acknowledging that you and those with whom you disagree will spend eternity together should encourage you to not allow peripheral doctrines to separate you here on earth.”
― Thomas Brooks

“There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.”
― Thomas Brooks

“There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.”
― Thomas Brooks

“You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.”
― Thomas Brooks

“#3. Meditate on God's many commands demanding that we love one another. When you feel your heart begin to turn against another Christian, this is the time to turn to the many commands to love one another-commands found in places such as John 15:12, Romans 13:8, Hebrews 13:1, 1 John 4:7, 1 Peter 1:22, and so on. Allow God's Word to convict you of love's necessity.”
― Thomas Brooks

“If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.”
― Thomas Brooks

“The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks”
― Thomas Brooks

“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

“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.”
― Thomas Brooks

“There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.”
― Thomas Brooks

“Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.”
― Thomas Brooks

“The Lord Jesus... sweetens all other gifts that are bestowed upon the sons of men. He turns every bitter into sweet, and makes every sweet more sweet.”
― Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks

“Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“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.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices