The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
Interpretation
Small compromises can lead to larger wrongdoings.
This quote by Thomas Brooks highlights the dangers of allowing minor sins or ethical lapses, suggesting that once one begins to make small concessions in their moral standards, they may eventually lead themselves to commit more significant and detrimental wrongs. It serves as a warning to maintain strict adherence to one's principles and values to avoid a slippery slope toward greater failings.
In practice
During a sermon about integrity, a speaker might use this quote to emphasize the importance of sticking to one's values.
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.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
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