Thomas Brooks (Puritan)

"Certainly, those persons that shall deny sanctification to be a most sure, sweet, and comfortable evidence of man's justification, they must not only blot out, and abolish the epistles of James and Jo…"

"Love is a golden key to let in Christ, and a strong lock to keep out others."

"Those who live as the many, must die with the many, and go to hell with the many. The way to hell is broad and well beaten. The way to be undone forever is to do as the most do."

"Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent."

"An excellent master is always better than an excellent law. Let your laws be ever so good, if the lawmakers are bad, all will come to nothing."

"Satan, being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to a devil, is so full of malice and envy that he will leave no means unattempted, whereby he ma…"

"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 d…"

"The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth."