Thomas Brooks Quotes

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Pollinate the world with the pure love of Christ.

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

Jesus loves the world, as do I.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since.

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.