Thomas Brooks Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Have Faith, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.477

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Sweet, Bitter, Sin

• There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

  Thomas Brooks

  Evil, Affliction, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.36

• 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

  Men, Lasts, Action

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.198

• Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Blood, Forever, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 81, 1895.

• It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Grace, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.14

• Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

  Thomas Brooks

  Pain, Jewels, Forever

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.30

• It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that 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

  Distance, Fall, Sins Not

• The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

  Thomas Brooks

  Believe, Humble, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.249

• There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Cutting, Soul

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores".

• There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

  Thomas Brooks

  Littles, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.36

• 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

  Heart, Grace And Mercy, Wrath

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

• Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Fire, Light

  "The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks".

• Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Believe, Hands

• Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Wise, Real

• Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heaven, Grace, Looks

• Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

  Thomas Brooks

  Color, Sin, Satan

  "Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks".

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.12

• Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Lying, Heart, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.195

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Loss, Soul, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.309

• There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Sin, Best Of Me

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.41

• Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Temptation, Littles

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.31

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Men, Devil

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.4

• 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

  Men, Wicked, Retail

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