Top 120 Thomas Brooks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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

— Thomas Brooks

3. “Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.”

— Thomas Brooks

4. “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

5. “Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.”

— Thomas Brooks

6. “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.”

— Thomas Brooks

7. “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

8. “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

9. “A man full of hope will be full of action.”

— Thomas Brooks

10. “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.”

— Thomas Brooks

11. “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.”

— Thomas Brooks

12. “The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.”

— Thomas Brooks

13. “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

14. “He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”

— Thomas Brooks

15. “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

16. “The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

18. “Satan paints sin with virtues colors.”

— Thomas Brooks

19. “Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .”

— Thomas Brooks

20. “An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”

— Thomas Brooks

21. “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

22. “Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.”

— Thomas Brooks

23. “Truth is mighty and will prevail.”

— Thomas Brooks

24. “If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.”

— Thomas Brooks

25. “Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.”

— Thomas Brooks

26. “True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans...”

— Thomas Brooks

27. “Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.”

— Thomas Brooks

28. “Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God’s perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.”

— Thomas Brooks

29. “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

30. “It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.”

— Thomas Brooks

31. “He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.”

— Thomas Brooks

32. “He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.”

— Thomas Brooks

33. “To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.”

— Thomas Brooks

34. “Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.”

— Thomas Brooks

35. “Mercy is God’s Alpha, justice is His Omega.”

— Thomas Brooks

36. “Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.”

— Thomas Brooks

37. “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

38. “Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.”

— Thomas Brooks

39. “Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.”

— Thomas Brooks

40. “An humble soul looks upon Christ’s righteousness as his only crown.”

— Thomas Brooks

41. “He that will play with Satan’s bait, will quickly be taken with Satan’s hook.”

— Thomas Brooks

42. “Repentance is the vomit of the soul.”

— Thomas Brooks

43. “Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.”

— Thomas Brooks

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

— Thomas Brooks

45. “The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.”

— Thomas Brooks

46. “Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.”

— Thomas Brooks

47. “Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.”

— Thomas Brooks

48. “There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.”

— Thomas Brooks

49. “There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.”

— Thomas Brooks

50. “The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.”

— Thomas Brooks