Thomas Brooks Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

• 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

• Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.

  Thomas Brooks

  Missing, Christ

• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Caring

• The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

  Thomas Brooks

  Jesus, Dying, World

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.189, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• 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.

• 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

• Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christ, Made, Chiefs

• 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

• The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

  Thomas Brooks

  Two, World, Christ

  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.251

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Watches, Sun, Christ

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.13

• 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

• 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

  Humble, Men, Mourning

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

• 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

  Jesus, Prayer, Hearing

• Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Soul, Solitude

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.11

• Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Christ, Prize

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

• An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humble, Soul, Looks

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

• We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christ, Ifs

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.18

• Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.

  Thomas Brooks

  Lovely, Christ

• 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

  Father, Vanity, Years

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.144

• What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

  Thomas Brooks

  Long, Giving, Honor

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1652.

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