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… — 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
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. — 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
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. — 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
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the… — 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
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
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. — 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
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as… — 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
