Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

I just can't smile at people for money.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.

Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in our prayers of gratitude, often repeating the same words but without the intent to give our thanks as a gift of the heart to God.

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.