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Thomas Brooks

April 4, 2020

Prayer – Thomas Brooks

If the prayers of God’s children are so faint that they can not reach up as high as heaven, then God will bow the heavens and come down to their prayers.

– Thomas Brooks –
1608-1680

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Prayer

September 9, 2019

How to Choose Friends – Thomas Brooks

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Smooth Stones taken from Ancient Brooks: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Brooks

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Friendship-Relationship

December 24, 2018

Knowledge and Love – Thomas Brooks

Knowledge and love, like water and ice, beget each other. Man loves Christ by knowing, and knows Christ by loving.

– Thomas Brooks –

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Centrality of Christ, Christian Life, Favorites, Knowledge - Understanding, Love

December 19, 2018

Prayer Without the Heart – Thomas Brooks

The Jews at this day write upon the walls of their synagogues these words, Tophillah belo cavannah ceguph belo neshamah; that is, a prayer without the heart, or without the intention of the affection, is like a body without a soul.

– Thomas Brooks –
from The Secret Key To Heaven, 1665

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Prayer

December 1, 2018

What Do You Find Sweetness In? – Thomas Brooks

Oh what bitterness do I now find in that which Satan, the world, and my own deluded heart told me I should find sweetness in.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Christian Life, Fear - Worry - Anxiety, Flesh - Carnal Nature - Selfishness, Joy & Happiness, Peace, Sin - Temptation, The World

November 28, 2018

Preaching Christ Changes the Heart – Thomas Brooks

The teaching of this and that opinion may please a man’s fancy, but it is only the preaching of Christ that changes the heart, that conquers the heart, that turns the heart. Peter, by preaching a crucified Christ, converts three thousand souls at once.

– Thomas Brooks –

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Centrality of Christ, Communication, Evangelism, Grace, Ministry, Missions, Preaching, Salvation

August 29, 2018

Tempting Sin – Thomas Brooks

To venture upon the occasion of sin, and then to pray, “Lead us not into temptation,” is the same as to thrust thy finger into the fire, and then pray that it may not be burnt.
– Thomas Brooks –

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Christian Life, Consecration, Holiness, Sanctification, Sin - Temptation, Victory

August 18, 2018

God’s Grace Works Often in a Silent and Secret Way – Thomas Brooks

God oftentimes works grace in a silent and secret way and takes sometimes five, sometimes ten, sometimes fifteen, sometimes twenty years; yea, sometimes more, before he will make a clear and satisfying report of his own work upon the soul.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance,1654

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Consecration, God, Grace, Holiness, Sanctification, Time

August 12, 2018

What is a Contrite Heart – Thomas Brooks

The Contrite Heart: True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans, for a loving God and Father is by sin offended, a blessed Saviour afresh crucified, and the sweet Comforter, the Spirit, grieved and vexed.

– Thomas Brooks –

By Thomas Brooks Filed Under: Christian Life, Consecration, Dependence, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Humility, Maturity, Obedience, Prayer, Repentance, Sanctification, Sin - Temptation

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