Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Phillips Brooks miraclemenlife Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made. Phillips Brooks biblicalbiblejesus Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks motivationalinspirationallife Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. Phillips Brooks thanksgivingeyebelieve Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life. Phillips Brooks cheerfulnew-lifedeeds Character - Some day, 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. Phillips Brooks realstrugglelife Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God. Phillips Brooks menlifethinking 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 prayerwingsthinking Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. Phillips Brooks gods-willprayerlying 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. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat. Phillips Brooks fridayreallying Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops. Phillips Brooks life-is-too-shortmountainnurse There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God. Phillips Brooks lighthumblelife A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Phillips Brooks powermenlife I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. Phillips Brooks being-strongprayerinspirational No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable. Phillips Brooks unbearableburdentomorrow 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 prayerchristianinspirational Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Phillips Brooks fogweekopinion The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't. Phillips Brooks trouble 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 xmaschristmassong Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Phillips Brooks forgivenessfaultsbears
