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.
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.
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