Thomas Brooks Quotes

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and... forget the main reason why we're here: to worship Allah.

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

When I really discovered who God was and had a firm relationship with him my junior year of college, I journaled constantly. All day long. I had boxes of journals. They were really just love letters to God, just thanking him and praying out loud and telling him my desires.

The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.