The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“ It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation?… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
