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
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.
personality preaching
Preaching is truth through personality.
country two safety
There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
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.
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.
men optimism essentials
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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.
men
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
god greatness giving
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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.
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.
real humble humility
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.