Thomas Brooks Quotes

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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are…
• The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
• Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are…
• Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may…
• Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary…
• God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
• God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are…
• Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
• When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
• When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
• Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
• 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…
• It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,…
• The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good…
• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that…
• A man full of hope will be full of action.
• If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that…
• As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the…
• He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

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