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
mistake thinking order
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.
men
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
god greatness giving
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
life men paradise
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.
easter strong dark
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.
real humble humility
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.
loyalty friday light
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.
happiness happy flower
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
christmas dark night
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
christmas xmas earth
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young....
inspirational prayer men
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
god prayer wish
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
hope possibility ideal-life
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
patience short-life failure
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.