Thomas Brooks Quotes

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

We are all born marked for evil.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.