Quotes from Phillips Brooks

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Very strange 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.

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Anger is self-immolation.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.