Phillips Brooks Quotes
-
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
→ -
To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
→ -
Christ will rise on Easter day!
→ -
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.
→ -
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.
→ -
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
→ -
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.
→ -
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
→ -
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."
→ -
O, do not pray for easy lives.
→ -
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
→ -
Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.
→ -
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
→ -
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
→ -
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
→ -
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.
→ -
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
→ -
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.
→ -
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
→ -
Very strange 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.
→ -
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
→ -
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
→ -
There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
→ -
Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
→ -
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
→ -
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
→ -
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
→ -
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.
→ -
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
→ -
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
→
Related Authors
-
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sculptor -
Henry Ward Beecher Minister -
-
Ralph Vaughan Williams Composer -
Edward Everett Hale Author -
Helen Keller Author -
John Mason Neale Writer -
Wendell Phillips Lawyer -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Activist -
-
Victoria Woodhull Political leader -
-
William Lloyd Garrison Journalist -
Lydia M. Child Activist -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author -
Isaac Watts Writer -
John Cotton Minister -
Robert H. Schuller Televangelist -
John Brown Abolitionist -
Charles Wesley Poet