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
Phillips Brooks quotes about
prayer wings praying
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
achievement limits
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
scripture argument conviction
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
talking soul trying
Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.
secret wickedness may
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
friends two sacred
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
enthusiasm losing admiration
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
blessed thinking blessing
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.
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.
easter flower grace
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.
easter garden done
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."
christian men preaching
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
opinion week creeds
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
easter forever may
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.