Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Thomas BrooksYour 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 BrooksThe 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 BrooksThat sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
Thomas BrooksThe 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