“When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle 

until we see that it is God that strikes.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“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 the most assured souls.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Christ dwells in that heart most eminently 

that hath emptied itself of itself.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“The best and sweetest flowers of paradise 

God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. 

Prayer is the gate of heaven.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.” 

—Thomas Brooks

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

—Thomas Brooks

“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 the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.” —Thomas Brooks

“Get Christ and get all; 

miss Christ and miss all.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“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 be; 

nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, 

how many they may be; 

not at logic of your prayers, 

how methodical they may be; 

but the sincerity of them He looks at.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, 

open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; 

he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; 

he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; 

he promises profit, and pays with loss; 

he promises life, and pays with death. 

But God pays as He promises; 

all His payments are made in pure gold.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. 

It is not our tears, but His blood; 

it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. 

Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, 

when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“God hath in Himself 

all power to defend you, 

all wisdom to direct you, 

all mercy to pardon you, 

all grace to enrich you, 

all righteousness to clothe you, 

all goodness to supply you, 

and all happiness to crown you.” 

—Thomas Brooks

“Anything that makes us pray is a blessing!”

—Charles Spurgeon

“There is no pardon, without repentance.

There is no heaven, without holiness.

Do not rest in mere mental assent to the Gospel.

This cost nothing, and is worth nothing!

The devils assent to the truths of Scripture.”

—Thomas Manton

“A finite creature can never fully comprehend an infinite Creator.” 

—Thomas Manton

“By God all things exist—therefore He can … 

hear all prayers, 

relieve us in all our straits, 

supply us in all wants, 

and preserve us in all dangers. 

Our whole life is in His keeping, 

and upheld by His intimate presence with us. 

Our days cannot be longer nor shorter than He pleases.” 

—Thomas Manton

“The use of God’s rod is to bring us back unto God. 

Affliction changes us … 

from vanity, to seriousness; 

from error, to truth; 

from stubbornness, to teachableness; 

from pride, to humility. 

To the people of God, affliction is not a destructive punishment—

but remedy for our maladies.” 

—Thomas Manton

“Christ does not save us because we are holy,

but that we may be holy!” 

—Thomas Manton

“By the same divine power by which Christ made all things, He preserves and sustains all things. All creatures owe their continuance and preservation to Him.” —Thomas Manton

“It is easy for Him who made all things out of nothing to help His redeemed children. The Almighty Creator, ruler, and governor of the world—what can He not do?” —Thomas Manton

“If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”

—Charles Spurgeon