Thomas Brooks Quotes

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.