Phillips Brooks Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Phillips Brooks on Wise Famous Quotes.
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.