110+ Thomas Brooks Quotes On Education, Freedom And Character

Thomas Brooks was an English Puritan preacher and author. He was born in 1608 and died in 1680. He is best known for his book, The Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Thomas Brooks on leadership, life, education.

Top 10 Thomas Brooks Quotes

1. The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
2. He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
3. The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
4. Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
5. Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
6. Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
7. Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
8. Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
9. God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
10. He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

Thomas Brooks Short Quotes

• If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
• Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
• A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.
• Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
• God is as just as he is merciful.
• Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
• Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.
• Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.
• There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.
• Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

Thomas Brooks Quotes About Life

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

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing. — Thomas Brooks

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings! — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life. — Thomas Brooks

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. — Thomas Brooks

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life. — Thomas Brooks

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. — 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

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death — Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks Quotes About Prayer

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. — Thomas Brooks

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. — Thomas Brooks

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. — Thomas Brooks

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]. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. — Thomas Brooks

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven . — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks Quotes About Earth

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone. — Thomas Brooks

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell. — Thomas Brooks

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell. — Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks Quotes About Hath

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. — Thomas Brooks

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans. — Thomas Brooks

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing. — Thomas Brooks

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns. — Thomas Brooks

What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die! — Thomas Brooks

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

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. — 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, who has most communion with God. — Thomas Brooks

There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. — Thomas Brooks

Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin. — 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 his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ. — Thomas Brooks

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

He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite. — Thomas Brooks

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

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved. — Thomas Brooks

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. — 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

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God. — Thomas Brooks

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater — Thomas Brooks

A good conscience and a good confidence go together. — Thomas Brooks

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience. — Thomas Brooks

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness. — Thomas Brooks

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds. — Thomas Brooks

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie. — Thomas Brooks

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much. — Thomas Brooks

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin. — Thomas Brooks

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all. — Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. — Thomas Brooks

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

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. — Thomas Brooks

A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory. — Thomas Brooks

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

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. — Thomas Brooks

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. — Thomas Brooks

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls. — Thomas Brooks

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short. — Thomas Brooks

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. — Thomas Brooks

Repentance is the vomit of the soul. — Thomas Brooks

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion. — Thomas Brooks

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors. — Thomas Brooks

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks

There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... 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 undiscernibly 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

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against. — Thomas Brooks

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow. — Thomas Brooks

Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35]. — Thomas Brooks

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world. — Thomas Brooks

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

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. — Thomas Brooks

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. — Thomas Brooks

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth. — Thomas Brooks

The only ground of God's love is his love. — Thomas Brooks

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

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint. — Thomas Brooks

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! — Thomas Brooks

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. — Thomas Brooks

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks

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. — Thomas Brooks

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely. — Thomas Brooks

Life Lessons by Thomas Brooks

1. Thomas Brooks encourages readers to live a life of gratitude and humility, recognizing that all good things come from God.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of living a life of integrity, making sure to do what is right even when it is difficult.
3. Lastly, Brooks encourages readers to be diligent in their pursuits, never giving up on their dreams and goals no matter how hard the journey may be.