Quotes from Thomas Brooks

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

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.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

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.

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.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.