Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
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
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 feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain… — 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
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that… — 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
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope… — 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
There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by… — 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 great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing -… — 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 Image
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
