Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
Interpretation
People's obedience to Christ depends on how much they value Him.
This quote by Thomas Brooks emphasizes the intrinsic relationship between one's reverence for Christ and their willingness to follow His teachings. It suggests that the degree to which a person values Christ directly influences their compliance with His commandments, indicating that genuine faith and respect are essential for true obedience.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of faith, one might quote this to highlight the connection between belief and actions.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
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