Thomas Brooks Quotes About Grace
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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.
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Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
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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.
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Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.
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Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
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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.
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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.
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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
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Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
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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.
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