Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
Interpretation
True faith in this life can lead to a peaceful existence, while faith will secure a heavenly reward in the afterlife.
This quote by Thomas Brooks suggests that having a strong and genuine faith can significantly enhance our experience of life, creating a sense of tranquility and joy that resembles 'heaven.' Conversely, it emphasizes that even a modest yet sincere faith is sufficient to ensure a place in heaven after death, highlighting the importance of belief in both our current life and in the hereafter.
In practice
During a church sermon to inspire congregants to strengthen their faith.
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 healthy man does not torture others.
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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