More suitable to swine! – Thomas Brooks

There is no earthly portion which can suit an immortal soul; he is a fool upon record who said, “Soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry,” Luke 12:18-20. If the man had the soul of a swine, what more could he have said? for those things were more suitable to swine than they were to an immortal soul!

Man’s soul is a spiritual and immortal substance, it is capable of union and communion with God; it is capable of a choice enjoyment of God here, and of an eternal fruition of God hereafter. Nothing can suit the soul below God; nor can anything satisfy the soul without God. The soul is so high and so noble a piece, that all the riches of the east and west Indies, nor rocks of diamonds, nor mountains of gold can fill it, or satisfy it, or suit it!