Quotes by Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) — Puritanischer Prediger · Puritaner · England
Thomas Brooks war ein englischer puritanischer Prediger und nonkonformistischer Geistlicher, der im 17. Jahrhundert in London wirkte und 1662 im Zuge der Uniformitätsakte sein Pfarramt verlor. Bekannt ist er für seine bildhaften seelsorgerlichen Schriften über geistliche Anfechtung, Heilsgewissheit und Trost im Leiden, wobei er in seiner Gemeindepraxis eine strikte Sakramentsdisziplin durchsetzte. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet sein Werk ein exemplarisches Zeugnis puritanischer Seelsorge und praktischer Theologie zur Bewältigung innerer Krisen.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Temptation & Struggle, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Prayer & Silence, Humility & Pride, Growth & Character, Discipleship
Quotes by Thomas Brooks
Communion with God makes bitter things – sweet; and massive things – light.
Thomas Brooks
O sirs! There is in a crucified Jesus – something proportionate to all the straits, needs, necessities, and desires of His poor people. He is bread to nourish them, a garment to cover and adorn them, a physician to heal them, a counselor to advise them, a captain to defend them, a prince to rule them, a prophet to teach them, a priest to make atonement for them; a husband to protect them, a father to provide for them, a brother to relieve them, a foundation to support them, a head to guide them, a treasure to enrich them, a sun to enlighten them, and a fountain to cleanse them! What more can any Christian desire – to satisfy him and save him; and to make him holy and happy – in time and eternity?
Thomas Brooks
Temptations are rather hopeful evidences that thy estate is good, that thou art dear to God, and that it shall go well with thee forever, than otherwise. God had but one Son without corruption, but He had none without temptation.
Thomas Brooks
God’s hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ’s intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved (Eph. 1.6).
Thomas Brooks
Ah! How often, Christians, hath God kissed you at the beginning of prayer, and spoken peace to you in the midst of prayer, and filled you with joy and assurance upon the close of prayer!
Thomas Brooks
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.
Thomas Brooks
All honey would harm us; all wormwood would undo us – a composition of both is the best way to keep our souls in a healthy constitution. It is best and most for the health of the soul – that the warm south wind of mercy, and the cold north wind of adversity – do both blow upon it. And though every wind which blows, shall blow good to the saints; yet certainly their sins die most, and their graces thrive best, when they are under the frigid, drying, nipping north wind of calamity, as well as under the warm, nourishing south wind of mercy and prosperity.
Thomas Brooks
God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic of your prayers, to see how many they are; nor yet at the music of your prayers, nor yet at the sweetness of your voice, nor yet at the logic of your prayers; but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are. There is no prayer acknowledged, approved, accepted, recorded, or rewarded by God, but that wherein the heart is sincerely and wholly.
Thomas Brooks
If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.
Thomas Brooks
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
Thomas Brooks
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Thomas Brooks
Zeal is like fire; in the chimney it is one of the best servants; but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters.
Thomas Brooks
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
Thomas Brooks
Discord and division become no Christian. For wolves to worry the lambs is no wonder, but for one lamb to worry another, this is unnatural and monstrous.
Thomas Brooks
Faith is the spring of the watch that moves all the wheels of love, joy, comfort, and peace.
Thomas Brooks
Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.
Thomas Brooks
Assurance made David divinely fearless, and divinely careless.
Thomas Brooks
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Thomas Brooks
A heart that is full of the world is a heart full of wants.
Thomas Brooks
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
Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a prisoner his dungeon, or a thief his bolts, or a beggar his rags.
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
Such is Satan’s envy and enmity against a Christian’s joy and comfort, that he cannot but act to the utmost of his strength to keep poor souls in doubt and darkness. Satan knows that assurance is a pearl of such price that will make the soul happy forever; he knows that assurance makes a Christian’s wilderness to be a paradise; he knows that assurance begets in Christians the most noble and generous spirits; he knows that assurance is that which will make men strong to do exploits, to shake his tottering kingdom about his ears; and therefore he is very studious and industrious to keep souls off from assurance, as he was to cast Adam out of paradise.
Thomas Brooks
The assured Christian is more motion than notion, more work than word, more life than lip, more hand than tongue.
Thomas Brooks
The being in a state of grace will yield a man a heaven hereafter, but the seeing of himself in this estate will yield him both a heaven here and a heaven hereafter; it will render him doubly blest, blest in heaven, and blest in his own conscience.
Thomas Brooks
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
Thomas Brooks
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility, and holy joy.
Thomas Brooks
Few follow Him for love, but for loaves, John 6:26; few follow Him for His inward excellencies, but many follow Him for their outward advantages; few follow Him that they may be made good by Him, but many follow Him that they may be great by Him.
Thomas Brooks
It is the very drift and design of the whole Scripture, to bring souls first to an acquaintance with Christ, and then to an acceptance of Christ, and then to build them in a sweet assurance of their actual interest in Christ.
Thomas Brooks
Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yes, and which is more, when the author is not.
Thomas Brooks
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
God sees us in secret; therefore, let us seek His face in secret. Though heaven be God’s palace, yet it is not his prison.
Thomas Brooks
Satan can never undo a man without himself; but a man may easily undo himself without Satan.
Thomas Brooks
The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.
Thomas Brooks
It is sad…that saints should have many eyes to behold one another’s infirmities, and not one eye to see each other’s graces.
Thomas Brooks
It is only an infinite God, and an infinite good, that can fill and satisfy the precious and immortal soul of man.
Thomas Brooks
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.
Thomas Brooks
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
Thomas Brooks
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Sources: wikipedia.org, path2prayer.com, apuritansmind.com, banneroftruth.org
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