Quotes from Phillips Brooks
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."
- Phillips Brooks
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
- Phillips Brooks
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
- Phillips Brooks
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
- Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
- Phillips Brooks
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.
- Phillips Brooks
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
- Phillips Brooks
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
- Phillips Brooks
Preaching is truth through personality.
- Phillips Brooks
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
- Phillips Brooks