Thomas Brooks Quotes

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Virtue is her own reward.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.