Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
Thomas BrooksIf it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.
Thomas BrooksTag: reading knowledge motivation action conviction puritan reading-habits thomas-brooks
The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
Thomas BrooksTag: christian-living puritan
[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
Thomas BrooksTag: wisdom reading thought meditation reading-habits
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
Thomas BrooksTag: temptation self-pity
Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.
Thomas BrooksTag: materialism trouble affluence
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
Thomas BrooksTag: lust temptation
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
Thomas BrooksTag: sin
Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.
Thomas BrooksTag: meditation gospel
Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity; there are some things in the world that are good but not pleasant and others that are pleasant but not good. But to live in peace is both pleasant and good.
Thomas BrooksTag: unity
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