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
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
pride self tree
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
children giving humanity
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.
country would-be poverty
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
anger self
Anger is self-immolation.
life easter strong
Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
believe men knowing
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.
christian men preaching
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
enthusiasm losing admiration
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
easter flower grace
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.
confidence children pride
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
sleep angel watches
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
wall fire soul
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
change opinion week
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.