Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His… — 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
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
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
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel… — 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
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
Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of… — 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
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
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
