Tears have tongues – Thomas Brooks

“The Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.” Psalm 6:8

Tears are not mutes. Tears have a voice. Tears have tongues. Tears can speak. There is no prayer compared to those which secret tears make in the ears of God. Tears make the most forcible entry into the ears of the great God of heaven.

Penitent tears are undeniable ambassadors which never return from the throne of grace without a gracious answer. Tears are a kind of silent prayers, which, though they say nothing yet they obtain pardon; and though they plead not a man’s cause yet they obtain mercy at the hands of God.