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
inspirational greatness quality
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
effort done good-work
To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
prayer wings praying
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
cheerful deeds new-life
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
achievement limits
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
strength being-strong stay-strong
O, do not pray for easy lives...
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.
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.
use best-nature
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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.
comfort trouble infinite
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
hands forever delight
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.
spirit thorough righteousness
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.