Thomas Brooks

“God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.”

“Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[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.”

“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”

“He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.”

“For great is truth, and shall prevail.”

“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.”

“Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.”

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

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

“Truth is mighty and will prevail.”

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