Quotes from Phillips Brooks
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
- Phillips Brooks
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
- Phillips Brooks
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
- Phillips Brooks
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
- Phillips Brooks
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
- Phillips Brooks
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
- Phillips Brooks
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
- Phillips Brooks
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, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
- Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Phillips Brooks
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
- Phillips Brooks