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
call change creed opinions revelation simply
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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.
christian friday jesus
The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.
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.
faults bears vengeful
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
christian jesus men
I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.
trouble
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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.