Thomas Brooks — Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven

Satan's first device to draw the soul into sin is, to present the bait—and hide the hook; to present the golden cup—and hide the poison; to present the sweet, the pleasure, and the profit that may flow in upon the soul b…

There will come a time when in this world, holiness shall be more general, and more eminent, than ever it has been since Adam fell in paradise.

A man may be a true believer, and yet would give all the world, were it in his power, to know that he is a believer.

To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace, is glory upon the throne, it is heaven on this side heaven.

Assurance is not of the essence of a Christian. It is required to the well-being, to the comfortable and joyful being of a Christian; but it is not required to the being of a Christian.

Heliogabalus loved his children the better for resembling him in sin. But Christ loves his children the more for resembling him in sanctity. I have read of some springs that change the colour of the cattle that drink of…