Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Thomas Brooks maps out the specific devices Satan uses to lure believers into sin, cool their zeal for holy duties, and unsettle their assurance, answering each one with a cluster of Scripture-soaked remedies. Written in the vivid, image-rich style that made Brooks so quotable, it works as both a diagnostic manual of temptation and a pastoral handbook for resisting it.
Based on Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (1652), by Thomas Brooks
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Thomas Brooks
“Know that it is not the knowing , nor the talking , nor the reading man—but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. "If you know these things, blessed and happy are you if you DO them." (John 13:17)”
“Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”
“Satan loves to sail with the wind, and to suit men's temptations to their conditions and inclinations.”
“Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace, shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world.”
“To render good for evil is divine. To render good for good is human. To render evil for evil is brutish. But to render evil for good is devilish!”
“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”
“The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.”
“There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan, than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness.”
“Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.”
“Christ is the crown of crowns, the glory of glories, and the heaven of heavens.”
