The Secret Key to Heaven Quotes

“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

“He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Call to Closet Prayer

“Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher’s stone, how happy might they have been!”
― Thomas Brooks, Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven

“The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Call to Closet Prayer

“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concernments.”
― Thomas Brooks, Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven

“A great lady(Queen Elizabeth )of England , on her dying bed cried out ,"call time again , call time again; a world of wealth for an inch of time !"but time past was never nor could never be recalled.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Privy Key of Heaven

“ It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Privy Key of Heaven

“First, The most eminent saints, both in the Old and New Testament, have applied themselves to private prayer.”
― Thomas Brooks, Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven

“The sluggish Christian will be sleeping, or idling, or trifling, when he should be in his closet a-praying. Sloth is the green-sickness of the soul; get it cured, or it will be your eternal bane. Of all devils, it is the idle devil that keeps men most out of their closets. There is nothing that gives the devil so much advantage against us as idleness.”
― Thomas Brooks, Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven

“Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.”
― Thomas Brooks, The Privy Key of Heaven

“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 them into the colour of their own waters, as Du Bartas sings: "Cerona, Xanth, and Cephisus do make The thirsty flocks, that of their waters take, Black, red, and white; and near the crimson deep, The Arabian fountain maketh crimson sheep.”
― Thomas Brooks, Private Prayer: The Secret Key of Heaven