Thomas Brooks Quotes

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

A good man fallen among politicians.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified

Because of our sin, we as individuals and as a nation continue to experience a decline in moral values and beliefs. Our sinful behavior has resulted in increasing rates of unmarried adolescent and adult sexual activity, the birth of children to unwed mothers, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and decreasing marital fidelity. These are all signs of the decline of our culture.

By your actions in Campaign 2016, you have harmed all of our witness. You have made it more difficult to save the lost and more difficult to protect the rights of faithful believers. You have dragged down the reputation of penitent heroes of the Bible to justify the sins of Donald Trump. You have dismissed claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump. You have subverted and perverted the Word to justify and excuse the behavior of a man who finds it acceptable to degrade others and revel in sexual sin.

We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.