Phillips Brooks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Men #Miracle
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Jesus #Biblical #Christ
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Thanksgiving #Believe #Eye
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Prayer #Thinking #Wings
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Inspirational #Being Strong #Prayer
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Men #Thinking
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Men #Power
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Christmas #Song #Angel
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Faces #Tunes #Helping
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Real #Struggle
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Heart #Blessing #Heaven
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Hope #Possibility #Ideal Life
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young....
-- Phillips Brooks

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

#Christmas #Dark #Night
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Grief #Our Love #Want
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Men #Paradise
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Easter #Strong #Dark
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Christmas #Children #Cottages
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Thinking #Presumptuous
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
-- Phillips Brooks

#God #Prayer #Wish
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Inspirational #Motivational #Hope
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Patience #Life Is Too Short #Failure
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Real #Humility #Humble
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.
-- Phillips Brooks

#Life #Shapes #Littles

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