Thomas Brooks Quotes

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

Evil is whatever distracts.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Evil changes everybody!

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

... a mortal sin.

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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.

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

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven