Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that one should focus on the positive aspects of life (grace and heaven) rather than the negative (sin and hell).
Thomas Brooks emphasizes the futility of dwelling on negative thoughts and actions (sin) instead of aspiring towards the positive and hopeful aspects of existence (grace and heaven). He argues that it is irrational to give more attention to the darkness of life when one has the opportunity to embrace the light and the positive potential that grace represents.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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.
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, itβs a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or the counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be?
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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