The Secret Key to Heaven
In this practical treatise on Matthew 6:6, Thomas Brooks makes the case that the health of a Christian's soul rises and falls with the practice of private, closet prayer. Marshalling argument after argument, he urges believers to shut the door and meet God alone, answering common objections and exposing the excuses that crowd secret prayer out of everyday life.
Based on The Privy Key of Heaven; or, Twenty Arguments for Closet Prayer (1665), by Thomas Brooks
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Thomas Brooks
“Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.”
“Of all devils, it is the idle devil which keeps men most out of their closets.”
“One hour's communion with God in one's closet is to be preferred before the greatest and best company in the world.”
“Time spent in heavenly employments is no time lost from worldly business.”
“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.”
