Showing posts with label Thomas Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Brooks. Show all posts

Thomas Brooks on Covetousness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: | Posted On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 5:30 AM

"Covetousness renders men unsatisfied under all their outward enjoyments. Though a covetous wretch has enough to sink him--yet he can never have enough to satisfy him. First he wishes for a bag full, and then a chest full, and then a room full, and then a house full, etc.."

Thomas Brooks 

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Thomas Brooks on Walking as Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 5:28 AM

"To walk as Christ walked is to walk humbly, holily, justly, righteously, meekly, lowly, lovingly, fruitfully, faithfully, uprightly, with an 'as' of quality or similitude, but not with an 'as' of equality ; for that is impossible for any saint on earth-to walk so purely, so holily, so blamelessly, so unspottedly, so spiritually, so heavenly as Christ walked ; that is, with an 'as' of equality. "

Thomas Brooks



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Thomas Brooks on Covetousness

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:30 AM

"Covetousness robs a man of all true peace, comfort, contentment and quiet."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brook on Affliction

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 9:13 AM

"Afflictions are the tools by which the Father does more and more carve, form, and fashion His precious saints into the similitude and likeness of His dearest Son."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Zeal

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“Zeal is like fire, in the chimney it is one of the best servants; but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters.”

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Conscience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"A good conscience and a good confidence go together."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"God loves adverbs better than nouns; not praying only but praying well; not doing good but doing it well."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on the Affect of Assurance

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 5:30 AM

"The assured Christian is more motion than notion, more work than word, more life than lip, more hand than tongue."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Temptation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 5:30 AM

“In every temptation let us look up to a crucified Christ, who is fitted and qualified to support tempted souls. Oh my soul, whenever you are assaulted, let the wounds of Christ be thy city of refuge whither thou mayest fly and live!”

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Sin and Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Oh, then remember that there is nothing in heaven or earth more efficacious to cure the wounds of conscience than a frequent and serious meditation on the wounds of Christ."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brroks on Prayer

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 6, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns."

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on a Believer and Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“But now a sincere Christian, he owns Christ in all His offices, he receives Christ in all His offices, and he closes with Christ in all His offices. He accepts of Him, not only as a Christ Jesus, but also as a Lord Jesus; he embraces Him, not only as a saving Christ, but also as a ruling Christ. ”

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Heart-Kowledge

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, June 9, 2017 at 7:35 AM

“Remember, reader, that a little heart-knowledge, a little experimental knowledge, is of greater efficacy and worth than the highest notions of the most astute scholars.  He does well, who discourses of Christ - but he does infinitely better who, by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ.”

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 5:30 AM

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

Thomas Brooks

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Thomas Brooks on Secret Sins

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Those sins that lie closest and are most secretly lurking in the heart are as obvious and odious to God as those that are most fairly written upon a man’s forehead.”
Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the furthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil.”
Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on Prayer and Secret Sins

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“There is no greater hindrance to secret prayer in all the world than secret sins. Therefore, stand upon your watch, and arm yourselves with all your might against them. There is an antipathy betwixt secret sinning and secret praying, partly from guilt, which makes the soul shy of coming under God’s secret eye; and partly from those fears, doubts, disputes, and disorders that secret sins raise in the heart. Light is not more opposite to darkness, Christ to Belial, or heaven to hell than secret prayer is to secret sins.”

Thomas Brooks


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Thomas Brooks on False Teachers

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“The first distinguishing mark is that they are men-pleasers. 3 They preach more to please the ear than to profit the heart.”

Thomas Brooks

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Thomas Brooks on Meditating on God's Word

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“Remember, it is not hasty reading but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.  It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing 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."

Thomas Brooks



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Thomas Brooks on Sin

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“So all the while a darling sin lives and keeps the throne in the heart, grace and holiness will be kept exceeding weak and low; but when your darling sin is dethroned and slain by the power and the sword of the Spirit, grace and holiness will quickly grow stronger and stronger, and rise higher and higher.”

Thomas Brooks



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