Thomas Brooks quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Thomas Brooks has a lot to say. In this list we present the 13 best Thomas Brooks quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Thomas Brooks quotes
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.
— Thomas Brooks
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
— Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer
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.
— Thomas Brooks
[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.
— Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
— Thomas Brooks
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
— 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
Humility can weep over other men’s weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
— Thomas Brooks
It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God’s service an idle , perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.
— Thomas Brooks, The Privy Key of Heaven
The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
— Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
— Thomas Brooks
#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers than to see strength. It is as if you use a magnifying glass when looking for weakness and a telescope when looking for grace. Brooks warns, “Sin is darkness, grace is light; sin is hell, grace is heaven; and what madness is it to look more at darkness than at light, more at hell than at heaven.” Indeed.
— Thomas Brooks
Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.
— 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
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