It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“There is one universal religion, Helen - the religion of Love. Love your Heavenly Father with your whole heart and soul, love… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“I do not see how we can help thinking about God when He is so good to us all the time. Let… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
“The danger facing all of us--let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously--is not that we shall make an absolute failure of… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share
