201 Quotes by Thomas Brooks

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

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

As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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