The most powerful charm of Satan

Thomas Brooks


Honors, riches, and pleasures are the three deities, 
which all people adore, and to whom they continually 
sacrifice their best thoughts and energies. These, for 
their unparalleled vanity, may well be called "the 
vanity of vanities!"

Honors, riches, and pleasures are but . . .
a mere shadow,
a vapor,
a feather in the cap,
a breath,
a froth,
a dream,
a nothing.
They are without true substance. Like in a dream, 
you imagine they have substance—you grasp at 
them and awake—and they are nothing!

And yet, they are the most powerful charm 
of Satan, whereby he lulls men to sleep in the 
paradise of fools; to cast them, after they die, 
into the bottomless pit of eternal woe!