Absalom and Judas seek themselves, and hang themselves.

Self-seeking will make a man say anything, do anything, and be anything, to please the lusts of others, and to get advantages upon others.

The least sin set home upon the conscience, will more wound, vex, and oppress the soul, than all the temptations in the world can; therefore never yield to the least sin to be rid of the greatest temptation.

Satan will come on with new temptations when old ones are too weak. In a calm prepare for a storm.

Satan is bold and impudent, and if you are not peremptory in your resistance he will give you fresh onsets.

He that would stand in the hour of temptation must plead with Christ, 'It is Written.'.

Make present and peremptory resistance against Satan's temptations, bid defiance to the temptation at first sight.

RT @Heidel_bro1563: “Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”. -Thomas Brooks

True grace leads the soul to rest in Christ, as in his summum bonum, chiefest good.

The stream doth no more naturally lead to the fountain, nor the effect to the cause, than true grace leads the soul to Christ.

True grace works the heart to the hatred of all sin, and to the love of all truth; it works a man to the hatred of those sins that for his blood he cannot conquer, and to loathe those sins that he would give all the world to overcome.

Saving grace, renewing grace, will cause a man to follow the Lord fully in the desertion of all sin, and in the observation of all God's precepts.

The confluence of all outward good cannot make a heaven of glory in my soul, if Christ, who is the top of my glory, be absent; as Absalom said, 'What is all this to me so long as I cannot see the king's face?' 2 Sam. xiv. 32.

RT @TrevHenderson: “Satan loves to sail with the wind, and to suit men’s temptations to their conditions and inclinations.” .-Pastor Thomas….

Nothing is sweet to me without the enjoyment of Christ in it; honours, nor riches, nor the smiles of creatures, are not sweet to me no farther than I see Christ, and taste Christ in them.

Though my comfort is gone, yet the God of my comfort abides; though my joy is lost, yet the seeds of grace remain.

RT @bondageofwill: “He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.”.—Thomas Brooks.

RT @calebmorell: @HeathEvans44 Good quote from Brooks on this: “Ah, souls, you can easily sin as the saints—but can you repent with the sai….

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The soul may be full of holy affections when it is empty of divine consolations.