"Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.……" — Thomas Brooks
"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 dull, God will be dumb."
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95 Quotes by Thomas Brooks
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The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is…
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Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort.…
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Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is…
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
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God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it…
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit…
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp…
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant,…
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power…
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