Phillips Brooks Quotes
- We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without…
- It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one…
- How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his…
- It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
- Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
- It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as…
- Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life…
- If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
- Anger is self-immolation.
- Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
- Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's…
- Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
- Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
- Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
- 0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
- It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full…
- Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
- Obedience completes itself in understanding.
- Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.