Thomas Brooks Quotes

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

I'm strong and spiritual, and I know that everything will work out for a reason.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I do have a belief in God, and no matter what happens to me, things are gonna be OK. It doesn't matter whether the tumours have spread or not, because either way, I'm gonna turn out a winner.

Hope is universal.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.