Phillips Brooks Quotes - Page 6

Christ will rise on Easter day!

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."

Preaching is truth through personality.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.