Phillips BrooksThe man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and … ▶373Love
Phillips BrooksThere is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and… ▶362DeathHopeHumanity
Phillips BrooksThe trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.362Thought
Phillips BrooksHappiness is the natural flower of duty. ✨ Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing<… ▶375Sadness
Phillips BrooksA man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.353Politics
Phillips BrooksWe may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's c… ▶321LoveReadingThought
Phillips BrooksWe anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once. ✨ Phillips Bro… ▶376LoveTimeTruth
Phillips BrooksNo man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. ✨ Phillips Brooks The Joy of Preaching, Kregel Publications356Thought
Phillips BrooksO, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no mi… ▶367LifePolitics
Phillips BrooksWe do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.301LoveSadness
Phillips BrooksWhere charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.312Hope
Phillips BrooksAs you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other … ▶334Life
Phillips BrooksLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. ✨ Bartlett's Familiar Quo… ▶301LifeReading
Phillips BrooksIt is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.345LifePhilosophy
Phillips BrooksWe never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.302Reading
Phillips BrooksWhile mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. ✨ Phillips Brooks, O Little Town Of Bethlehem368DeathLove
Phillips BrooksCharity should begin at home, but should not stay there.302Love
Phillips BrooksGenius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. ✨ Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermon… ▶303Politics
Phillips BrooksGet up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself. ✨ The Purpose and Use of Comfort.347Life
Phillips BrooksThe more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man. ✨ The Light of the World: And Other Sermons.337Thought
Phillips BrooksIt does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.3610Time
Phillips BrooksChristianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.315LoveTruth
Phillips BrooksHow silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where mee… ▶3510HumanityLoveReading
Phillips BrooksCharacter cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. ✨ Phillips Brooks (1906). The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings305LifeReading
Phillips BrooksThe glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must n… ▶283Hope
Phillips BrooksStand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a… ▶283Time
Phillips BrooksNo man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for… ▶327DeathHopePolitics
Phillips BrooksChrist is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousne… ▶284Truth
Phillips BrooksWe are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.295LifeThought
Phillips BrooksThe truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.285Truth
