Thomas Brooks Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

• Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Christ

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.15

• An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Contradiction, Holy

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.205

• 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

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.449

• There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Hands, Being Thankful

• He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Heart, Ears

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.173

• Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2001). “Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 5 of 6”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

  Thomas Brooks

  God, Stupid, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2013). “The Secret Key to Heaven: The Call to Closet Prayer”, p.147, Ravenio Books

• 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

  Christian, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

• 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

  Strong, Heart, Men

• 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".

• 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

• 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

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Eye, Tongue

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.2

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