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
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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.
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You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation; or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday
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In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness
love men liberty
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.
mean purpose might
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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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.
beautiful god voice
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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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.
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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.