Thomas Brooks Quotations

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

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter

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.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

I am surprised that paper doesn't pick up the Amazon and Congo basins, regions where there is a large number of animal species with small ranges.

Here God gives his people some taste, that they may not faint; and he gives them but a taste, that they may long to be at home, that they may keep humble, that they may sit loose from things below, that they may not break and despise bruised reeds, a

We talk about handling adversity. Things aren't going to always go your way. We have to face it and respond to it. You can shut down, but that's not what these guys do. They want to win. The kids get out on the field and think they're going to win.

I always found out you're only as good as the backups on your team - they're only a play away from starting. Any chance we can get them in, we are. We don't want district to be the first time. That way, they'll be used to the game and feel more comfortable.

He has the charisma a quarterback should have. The other guys respect him for his hard work and athletic ability, and for the type of player he is.

We talked about playing the whole four quarters. They got a little down being behind 10-0 at halftime, but they wanted it. The defense kept us in the game until the offense started clicking.

I think there are a lot of good-hearted people in our community who can lend a helping hand to those people. I would definitely open my home to those who needed somewhere to stay,

Kendall is just dangerous. I'm glad he's on my team. With the combination of Kendall and Kerry back there, I don't know if I'd want to defend that.

I think we have a little more work to do until we are like the teams they had in the 90's and 2000, ... We're still working on some things. Areas we feel we are a little weak in right now but we need to get stronger in.

It always feels good to win, but we have to work hard and keep getting better. That's our focus for the next game.

I think we got better last week. They toughened up. That was the most physical the offensive line has played. We're not there yet, but I think we're getting there. We told them if we eliminate the mistakes, work on our technique and get better, we'll be OK.

You have some more things you do in district. Whatever we need to get done, we're going to do it. There's no sense in holding back.

To go 2-0 would be tremendous. We lost those two (Kendall and Teddy), but these guys will persevere. They'll do whatever it takes.

That's two games in a row. Maybe we are pretty good on defense.

We just came out in that last five minutes and started playing. But we have to have that the whole game. When we do that, we're a very good football team. When we don't, we're average.

We'll try and get our wide receivers the ball more. They're the strength now.

We're anxious, ... But we still have a lot of work to do and a short amount of time.

We have so many skill guys. If you don't get a handle on Kerry or Kendall that can be a problem. And we have so many receivers and that's been the biggest surprise. Our thing is working with the offensive line. We've been spending a lot time with them.

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

Each game just helps with our confidence. A win would go a long way toward us making the playoffs.

We will contend for a playoff position, ... The guys are getting a good grasp of the new offense and the defense. We're getting real excited about the season.

We always talk about you're only as good as your last play. You have to have a short memory.

It was very emotional. (Even) at that moment, he's thinking about the team. We told the defense to keep them down there. They were on the one-foot line and they couldn't get their normal distance. We went for the block.

We had some first-game jitters. The guys were as nervous at the beginning.

Offensively, we can move the ball when we want to, and whenever we have to. I would like to see us execute better and be more consistent. If we want to play with the people in our district, we have to be consistent. We're not there yet.

Defensively, they're a 4-3 and they're aggressive, send people and stay in man. We have to have people in position or they'll take advantage. Our offense has to stop the blitz and give Kerry time. If we do that and put Kendall in the secondary, we'll be successful.

After the second score, the defense came over and said, 'Coach, they're not scoring again,' ... And sure enough, they didn't. Our guys did a lot of gang-tackling. You might make one or two miss, but the rest of them are coming. And that's the thing we talked about - pursuit.

It was great to have those weeks, especially after the injuries to Kendall and (wide receiver) Teddy (Williams). It let us make some adjustments, move people around and make us a better club. I think we put people in the right position.

They just played outstanding. They kept us in the game long enough to win. They were put in a tough situation but kept playing.

They weren't as aggressive at first. That's something we have to get better at.

Their offensive line is a good one and they use a stable of backs, ... Defensively, they attack and you don't know what angle they're coming from. We'll have to stop the run and blitz before they get into the backfield.

Their offensive line is a good one and they use a stable of backs. Defensively, they attack and you don't know what angle they're coming from. We'll have to stop the run and blitz before they get into the backfield.

That means a lot. But he can do more than run, he can also throw.

They do a lot of formations. Their quarterback is the No. 2 junior (prospect) in the national. And, he's tall.

We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.

We won (last week), ... But we know we have some mistakes to correct. But the more we get reps, the better we'll get with our assignments.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

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.

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

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

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.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

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

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans...

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].

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!

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

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.

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

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

God is as just as he is merciful.

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.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

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.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

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

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.

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].

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

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.

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.

Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.

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

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

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

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

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

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.

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

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.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

Satan paints sin with virtues colors.

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.