Thomas Brooks Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• 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

  Grace, Crowns, Mercy

  Thomas Brooks (1814). “Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women: and a Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women. Or, The Happiness of Being Good Betimes: and the Honour of Being an Old Disciple ...: Also, The Young Man's Objections Answered, and the Old Man's Doubts Resolved”, p.32

• 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

• Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Flower, Blessing

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.170, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• 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

• When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

  Thomas Brooks

  Struggle, Grace, Affliction

• Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Nurse, Grace

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.30

• 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

• It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

  Thomas Brooks

  Exercise, Grace, Communion

  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.192

• 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".

• When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

  Thomas Brooks

  Hands, Grace, Affliction

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations”, p.91

• Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Men, Joy

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Heaven, Grace, Looks

• There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Grace, Littles

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.102

• 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

• To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Grace, Sin, Mark

• He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Light, Grace

• Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

  Thomas Brooks

  Grace, Given, Trade

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.126

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