Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Brooks (American Songwriter)

Thomas Brooks (1608–80) was an English Puritan preacher and author, celebrated for his spiritually rich and practical writings. Known for his vivid language and deep scriptural insight, he inspired personal growth and holiness.

Born in Suffolk, England, Brooks studied at Emmanuel College-Cambridge. Ordained in the Church of England, he served as a chaplain for parliamentary forces during the English Civil War and later as a pastor in London. Following the Act of Uniformity in 1662, he was ejected for refusing to conform to the Anglican Church but continued preaching and writing, becoming a prominent figure among nonconformists.

His most famous work Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1652) offers guidance on resisting temptation. Other significant works include Heaven on Earth (1654,) which reassures readers of salvation; Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod (1659,) on enduring suffering; and The Crown and Glory of Christianity (1662,) a study of Christian virtue. Brooks’s writings remain valued for their deep spiritual insight and practical advice for believers.

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Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Selfishness

The best and sweetest flowers in paradise, God gives to his people when they are on their knees in the closet.—Prayer, if not the very gate of heaven, is the key to let us into its holiness and joys.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: 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 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
Topics: Prayer

You may as soon fill a bag with wisdom, a chest with virtue, or a circle with a triangle, as the heart of man with anything here below.—A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Heart

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Prayer

We trust as we love, and where we love.—If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Trust

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: God, Prayer

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Prayer

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 same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
—Thomas Brooks
Topics: Grace

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
Topics: Prayer

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