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
blood life-is ideal-life
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
commitment made
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
men divinity christ
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
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.
thinking can-do presumptuous
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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.
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.
comfort trouble infinite
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
christmas stars lying
0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
life humble light
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
trouble
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
inspirational motivational hope
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
faces tunes helping
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.