Phillips Brooks Quotes - Page 4

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.

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

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.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

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.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

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.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

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.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.