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
christmas children cottages
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
inspiring christian appreciation
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
men doe great-men
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
life dawn tasks
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
life literature world
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
christian jesus easter
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."
blood life-is ideal-life
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
commitment made
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
men divinity christ
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
grief our-love want
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.
life-is-too-short nurse mountain
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
thinking can-do presumptuous
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
friday light darkness
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.
scripture argument conviction
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.