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)
From the book
In Thomas Brooks's own words
“It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most, who will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.”
“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.”
