Quotes from Phillips Brooks
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.
- Phillips Brooks
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
- Phillips Brooks
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
- Phillips Brooks
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.
- Phillips Brooks
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
- Phillips Brooks
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
- Phillips Brooks
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- Phillips Brooks
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Phillips Brooks
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.
- Phillips Brooks
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
- Phillips Brooks
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
- Phillips Brooks