Quotes by Thomas Brooks

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.

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

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

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

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

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

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

Truth is mighty and will prevail.