Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Thomas BrooksThe only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
Thomas BrooksIt 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