Quotes from Phillips Brooks
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
- Phillips Brooks
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
- Phillips Brooks
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
- Phillips Brooks
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
- Phillips Brooks
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
- Phillips Brooks
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
- Phillips Brooks
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
- Phillips Brooks
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
- Phillips Brooks
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
- Phillips Brooks
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
- Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
- Phillips Brooks
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
- Phillips Brooks