Phillips Brooks Quotes about Children

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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Phillips Brooks

Christmas, Children, Cottages

Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Phillips Brooks

Children, Giving, Humanity

Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

Phillips Brooks

Children, Father, Men

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”