There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
Interpretation
Every wrongdoing has significance because it is against a higher power.
This quote by Thomas Brooks suggests that sin, regardless of its perceived magnitude, carries weight because it is ultimately an affront to the divine. By stating that there is no 'little God,' Brooks emphasizes that our actions, no matter how trivial they seem, are meaningful in the context of our relationship with a higher authority. Consequently, even minor misdeeds should not be dismissed lightly, as they reflect our values and beliefs about accountability and morality.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of personal integrity, one might quote this to illustrate how even small sins matter.
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.
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
When the Guest is being searched for,_x000D_ it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work._x000D_ Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
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