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
Phillips Brooks quotes about
appreciation dead dying fill heard heart knowing letting mean men neighbor passing remorse shame silly someday speaking till tomorrow word
You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation; or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday
future human nature quality unless
Very stange 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.
belongs felt gives god life man true
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
prayer thinking wings
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
prayer lying gods-will
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
prayer tasks praying
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
life-and-death want helping
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
hope possibility ideal-life
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
inspirational motivational hope
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
prayer wings praying
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.