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
dark hands praying
Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
stars heaven sun
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.
strength strong struggle
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
believe would-be belief
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.
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.
opinion week creeds
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
character long process
Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
pride self tree
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
children giving humanity
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.
country would-be poverty
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
anger self
Anger is self-immolation.
life easter strong
Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
believe men knowing
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.