It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;"… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their… — 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
