Thomas Brooks Quotes

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

God has blessed me on a lot of levels. Have I worked for it? Absolutely. But it still takes that blessing.

If we humble ourselves before the Lord, He will lift us up... He will. That's His promise.

The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near approaches to the ocean of glory.

When I first became a Christian I thought I would be glad when I got farther on, and got established. I thought I would be so strong and there would not be any danger; but the longer I live, the more danger I see there is. The only hope of any Christian...is to keep hold of Christ.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!

Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.