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
More Quotes By Thomas Brooks
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of... Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is... What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures – so long as I lack the favor... True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs... God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be... A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath... Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance... It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time... Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and... Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be... He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.
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