Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brookswas an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 December 1835
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful god voice
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
loyalty flower men
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
use best-nature
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
future quality strange
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.
letting-go past way
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.
fall light missing
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.
prayer wings praying
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
men touching christ
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
life-and-death want helping
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
character gun battle
The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.
christian pain men
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.
prayer men stronger
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
love children parent
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.