There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
Interpretation
Every wrongdoing has significance because it is against a higher power.
This quote by Thomas Brooks suggests that sin, regardless of its perceived magnitude, carries weight because it is ultimately an affront to the divine. By stating that there is no 'little God,' Brooks emphasizes that our actions, no matter how trivial they seem, are meaningful in the context of our relationship with a higher authority. Consequently, even minor misdeeds should not be dismissed lightly, as they reflect our values and beliefs about accountability and morality.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of personal integrity, one might quote this to illustrate how even small sins matter.
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.
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
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