Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
Interpretation
True faith in this life can lead to a peaceful existence, while faith will secure a heavenly reward in the afterlife.
This quote by Thomas Brooks suggests that having a strong and genuine faith can significantly enhance our experience of life, creating a sense of tranquility and joy that resembles 'heaven.' Conversely, it emphasizes that even a modest yet sincere faith is sufficient to ensure a place in heaven after death, highlighting the importance of belief in both our current life and in the hereafter.
In practice
During a church sermon to inspire congregants to strengthen their faith.
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.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
I donβt believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
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