Phillips Brooks Quotes

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Christ will rise on Easter day!

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

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.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

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.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

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.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

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.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

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.

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.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

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.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

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.

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."