Quotes from Phillips Brooks
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Phillips Brooks
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
- Phillips Brooks
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.
- Phillips Brooks
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
- Phillips Brooks
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
- Phillips Brooks
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
- Phillips Brooks
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
- Phillips Brooks
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
- Phillips Brooks
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
- Phillips Brooks
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.
- Phillips Brooks
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
- Phillips Brooks
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
- Phillips Brooks