Quotes by Phillips Brooks

About Phillips Brooks:

Phillips Brooks was 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".
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Phillips Brooks

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Phillips Brooks

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts ...

Phillips Brooks

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Phillips Brooks

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

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.'

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

Author Bio

  • NamePhillips Brooks
  • DescriptionAmerican clergyman and author
  • BornDecember 13, 1835
  • DiedJanuary 23, 1893
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPriest; Author