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
understanding obedience
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
loyalty flower men
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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.
anger self
Anger is self-immolation.
life easter strong
Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
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.
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.
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.
easter christ easter-day
Christ will rise on Easter day!
sin behavior knowing-god
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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.
life neighbor satisfied
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
love children parent
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
love men liberty
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.