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 xmas joy
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
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....
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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
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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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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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In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness
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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...
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Very stange 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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Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something lar
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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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.