Phillips Brooks Quotes (60 Quotes)

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond but most people only look at it and so they see only the dead letter.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death that is not the great thing but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

Very stange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.