Top 120 Thomas Brooks Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.”

— Thomas Brooks

52. “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

53. “Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.”

— Thomas Brooks

54. “Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.”

— Thomas Brooks

55. “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

56. “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

57. “God is as just as he is merciful.”

— Thomas Brooks

58. “We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.”

— Thomas Brooks

59. “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

60. “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!”

— Thomas Brooks

61. “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

62. “Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

64. “Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.”

— Thomas Brooks

65. “The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

67. “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

68. “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.”

— Thomas Brooks

69. “Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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!”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

75. “There is the seed of all sins – of the vilest and worst of sins – in the best of men.”

— Thomas Brooks

76. “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

77. “When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

79. “There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.”

— Thomas Brooks

80. “The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.”

— Thomas Brooks

81. “The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.”

— Thomas Brooks

82. “The only ground of God’s love is his love.”

— Thomas Brooks

83. “Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”

— Thomas Brooks

84. “Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”

— Thomas Brooks

85. “Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

87. “Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

90. “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

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

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Thomas Brooks

97. “As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”

— Thomas Brooks

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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