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
life men paradise
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
grief our-love want
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.
life-is-too-short nurse mountain
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
fighting winning live-your-life
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.
christmas dark night
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
easter strong dark
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
friday light darkness
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.
loyalty friday light
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.
life dawn tasks
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
commitment made
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
shadow devotion caps
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
personality preaching
Preaching is truth through personality.
beautiful prayer giving
Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.
mistake thinking order
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.