Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks
A collection of pithy, memorable sayings that C.H. Spurgeon gathered from the six-volume Works of Thomas Brooks, one of his favorite Puritan authors. It offers hundreds of short, quotable sentences on prayer, meditation, sin, death, and communion with Christ, making it an ideal introduction to Brooks's vivid, aphoristic style.
Based on Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks, comp. C.H. Spurgeon (1860)
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Thomas Brooks
“It is not the mere touching of the flower by the bee which gathers honey, but her abiding for a time on the flower which draws out the sweet.”
“Time is a jewel more of worth than a world.”
“Know that it is not the knowing , nor the talking , nor the reading man—but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. "If you know these things, blessed and happy are you if you DO them." (John 13:17)”
“Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”
“Satan loves to sail with the wind, and to suit men's temptations to their conditions and inclinations.”
“Where one thousand are destroyed by the world's frowns, ten thousand are destroyed by the world's smiles.”
“The world, siren-like, sings to us, then sinks us.”
“It is the greatest judgment in the world to be left to sin.”
“There is a great difference between a sheep which falls into the mire and a swine which delights to wallow in it.”
“Men must not think to dance and dine with the devil, and then to sup with Abraham in heaven.”
