Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks by Thomas Brooks

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…

remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!

Dios rara vez toma la vara, sino cuando nuestros pecados lo han forzado (2Cr 36:16; Jer 5:19). Es doloroso para Dios afligir a Su pueblo; le duele castigarlo. ''C'mo podr' abandonarte, oh Efra'n? 'Te entregar' yo, Israel…