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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

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.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

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.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

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.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

The only ground of God's love is his love.

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.