Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
Interpretation
Repentance cleanses the soul, much like vomiting purges the body.
Thomas Brooks uses the metaphor of vomiting to describe repentance, suggesting that just as the body sometimes needs to rid itself of harmful substances, the soul must expel sin and guilt. This act of repentance, therefore, is crucial for spiritual health and renewal, enabling individuals to start anew with a clear conscience.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of spiritual growth, a pastor might say this quote to emphasize the necessity of repentance.
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.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a few seconds it may have a rainbow, but it is only for a few seconds. In this infinite and eternal existence your egos go on bursting every moment. It is better not to have any attachment with soap bubbles.
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