Thomas Brooks Quotes About 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

  Prayer, Long, Looks

• La oración no es otra cosa que la exhalación que ante el Señor, que primero fue insuflada en nosotros por el Espíritu del Señor.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Breathing, Firsts

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.126

• 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

  Prayer, Flower, People

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, House, 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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Dumb

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• La oración corona a Dios con el honor y la gloria debidos a su nombre, y Dios corona la oración con seguridad y consuelo. Las almas más orantes son las almas más seguras.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Names, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

• Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Fire

• Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Soul, Solitude

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.11

• 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.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Heaven, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.223

• El que Dios escuche nuestras oraciones no depende de la santificación, sino de la intercesión de Cristo; no de lo que somos en nosotros mismos, sino de lo que somos en el Señor Jesús; tanto nuestras personas como nuestras oraciones son aceptables en el amado [Ef 1,6].

  Thomas Brooks

  Jesus, Prayer, Hearing

• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Answers, Cold

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• Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Heaven, Cold

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.107

• The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Breathing, Roots

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