201 Quotes by Thomas Brooks

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer ‘Action!’

A little hole in the ship sinks it. A small breach in a dyke carries away all before it. A little stab at the heart kills a man. A little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man!

Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher’s stone, how happy might they have been!

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

Humility can weep over other men’s weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

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.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death.

The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.