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“A poisonous pill is never a whit the less poisonous because it is gilded over with gold; nor a wolf is never a whit the less a wolf because he has put on a sheep's skin; nor the devil is never a whit the less a devil because he appears sometimes like an angel of light. So neither is sin any whit the less filthy and abominable by its being painted over with virtue's colors.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in graceâ€� shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“God is most angry when he shows no anger. God keep us from this mercy. This kind of mercy is worse than all other kind of misery.”
― Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks

“Judas called Christ Lord, Lord; and yet betrayed him, and has gone to his place. Ah! how many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ, and yet betray Christ; that in their words profess him—but in their works deny him; that bow their knee to him, and yet in their hearts despise him; that call him Jesus, and yet will not obey him for their Lord.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

“Seriously consider, that sin is of a very deceitful and bewitching nature; sin is from the greatest deceiver, it is a child of his own begetting, it is the ground of all the deceit in the world, and it is in its own nature exceeding deceitful. 'But exhort one another daily, while it is called 'today', lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.' It will kiss the soul, and look enticing to the soul, and yet betray the soul forever. It will with Delilah smile upon us, that it may betray us into the hands of the devil, as she did Samson into the hands of the Philistines. Sin gives Satan a power over us, and an advantage to accuse us and to lay claim to us, as those who wear his badge; it is of a very bewitching nature; it bewitches the soul, where it is upon the throne, that the soul cannot leave it, though it perish eternally by it.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“It is the greatest folly in the world—to adventure the going to hell for a small matter. "I tasted but a little honey," said Jonathan, "and I must die" (1 Sam. 14:29).”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“poison is commonly drunk out of a cup of gold.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Works of Thomas Brooks

“To live without fear of death—is to die living!”
― Thomas Brooks, A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day

“though Satan has his devices to draw souls to sin, yet we must be careful that we do not lay all our temptations upon Satan, that we do not wrong the devil, and father that upon him that is to be fathered upon our own base hearts.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Psalm 25:10, 'All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.' Psalm 32:10, 'Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he who trusts in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.' Psalm 33:18, 'Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his mercy.' Psalm 103:11, 'For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward those who fear him.' Ver. 17, 'But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Sin so bewitches the soul, that it makes the soul call evil good, and good evil; bitter sweet and sweet bitter, light darkness and darkness light;”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices

“He who turns not from every sin, turns not aright from any one sin. Every sin strikes at the honor of God, the being of God, the glory of God, the heart of Christ, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of a man's conscience; and therefore a soul truly penitent strikes at all, hates all, conflicts with all, and will labor to draw strength from a crucified Christ to crucify all sins. A true penitent knows neither father nor mother, neither right eye nor right hand—but will pluck out the one and cut off the other.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Repentance is a flower wich does not grow in nature's garden! 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.' (Jer. 13:23). Repentance is a gift that comes down from above. Men are not born with repentance in their hearts, as they are born with tongues in their mouths: (Acts 5:31):”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“God makes afflictions to be but inlets to the soul's more sweet and full enjoyment of his blessed self.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Christ has freed you from all your enemies, from the curse of the law, the predominant damnatory power of sin, the wrath of God, the sting of death, and the torments of hell.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Some ignorant deluded souls vainly conceit that these five words, 'Lord! have mercy upon me,' are efficacious to send them to heaven; but as many are undone by buying a counterfeit jewel, so many are in hell by mistake of their repentance.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Sin is of an encroaching nature; it creeps on the soul by degrees, step by step, until it has the soul to the very height of sin.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“saints have chosen to suffer the worst of torments, rather than commit the least sin,”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“So John: 'These things I write unto you, that you sin not (1 John 2:1, 2). What was it that he wrote? He wrote: 'That we might have fellowship with the Father and his Son; and that the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin; and that if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins; and that if we do sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' These choice favors and mercies the apostle holds forth as the choicest means to preserve the soul from sin, and to keep at the greatest distance from sin; and if this will not do it—you may write the man void of Christ and grace, and undone forever!”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Never let go out of your minds the thoughts of a crucified Christ." Let these be food and drink unto you; let them be your sweetness and consolation, your honey and your desire, your reading and your meditation, your life, death, and resurrection.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!”
― Thomas Brooks, PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES

“he did but live up to that principle that most Christians talk of, and all profess—but few come up to, that is—that we must choose rather to suffer the worst of torments that men and devils can invent and inflict, than to commit the least sin whereby God should be dishonored, our consciences wounded, religion reproached, and our own souls endangered.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior—to give repentance.' Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will." (2 Timothy 2:25-26)”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“But he refused all, though the giving of a half-penny might have saved his life; and in doing this, he did but live up to that principle that most Christians talk of, and all profess—but few come up to, that is—that we must choose rather to suffer the worst of torments that men and devils can invent and inflict, than to commit the least sin whereby God should be dishonored, our consciences wounded, religion reproached, and our own souls endangered.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“God had one Son without sin—but none without sorrow.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“This soul is lost!' A man may as truly say, 'the sea burns', or 'the fire cools'—as that God's free grace and mercy should make a truly gracious soul to live wickedly.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“So Joseph strengthens himself against sin from the remembrance of mercy: 'How then can I,' says he, 'do this great wickedness, and sin against God?' (Gen. 39:9). He had his eye fixed upon mercy, and therefore sin could not enter, though the irons entered into his soul; his soul being taken with mercy, was not moved with his mistress's impudence. Satan knocked often at the door—but the sight of mercy would not allow him to answer or open. Joseph, like a pearl in a puddle, keeps his virtue still.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“The least sin is contrary to the law of God, the nature of God, the being of God, and the glory of God;”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“When Satan attempts to draw you to sin by presenting God as a God all made up of mercy, oh then reply, that though God's general mercy extend to all the works of his hand, yet his special mercy is confined to those who are divinely qualified, to those who love him and keep his commandments, to those who trust in him, that by hope hang upon him, and who fear him; and that you must be such a one here, or else you can never be happy hereafter; you must partake of his special mercy, or else eternally perish in everlasting misery, notwithstanding God's general mercy.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Satan will first draw you to sit with the drunkard, and then to sip with the drunkard, and then at last to be drunk with the drunkard. He will first draw you to be unclean in your thoughts, and then to be unclean in your looks, and then to be unclean in your words, and at last to be unclean in your practices.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices