David Meinberg

“True happiness is too big and too glorious a thing to be found in anything below that glorious God—who is a Christian's summum bonum—his chief good. True happiness lies only in our enjoyment of a suitable good, a pure good, a total good and an eternal good! God alone is such a good—and such a good can only satisfy the soul of man.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“But he refused all, though the giving of a half-penny might have saved his life; and in doing this, he did but live up to that principle that most Christians talk of, and all profess—but few come up to, that is—that we must choose rather to suffer the worst of torments that men and devils can invent and inflict, than to commit the least sin whereby God should be dishonored, our consciences wounded, religion reproached, and our own souls endangered.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“God had one Son without sin—but none without sorrow.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“A Christian should wear Christ in his bosom as a flower of delight, for he is a whole paradise of delight. He who minds not Christ more than his sin, can never be thankful and fruitful as he should.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices