Thomas Brooks — The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod

Christ, the Scripture, your own hearts, and Satan's devices, are the four prime things that should be first and most studied and searched. If any cast off the study of these, they cannot be safe here, nor happy hereafter…

Sin is a plague, yea, the greatest and most infectious plague in the world; and yet, ah! how few are there that tremble at it, that keep at a distance from it!

Satan's first device to draw the soul into sin is, to present the bait—and hide the hook; to present the golden cup—and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul b…

There will come a time when in this world, holiness shall be more general, and more eminent, than ever it has been since Adam fell in paradise.

A man may be a true believer, and yet would give all the world, were it in his power, to know that he is a believer.

To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace, is glory upon the throne, it is heaven on this side heaven.