Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brookswas an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 December 1835
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational being-strong prayer
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
life men thinking
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.
christian friday jesus
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.
prayer thinking wings
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.
inspirational life motivational
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
thanksgiving believe eye
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.
jesus biblical christ
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.
life men miracle
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.
prayer tasks praying
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
personality preaching
Preaching is truth through personality.
blessed thinking blessing
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
blessed thinking blessing
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
character long process
Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.