Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.
Interpretation
People's obedience to Christ depends on how much they value Him.
This quote by Thomas Brooks emphasizes the intrinsic relationship between one's reverence for Christ and their willingness to follow His teachings. It suggests that the degree to which a person values Christ directly influences their compliance with His commandments, indicating that genuine faith and respect are essential for true obedience.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of faith, one might quote this to highlight the connection between belief and actions.
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.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
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