To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man. Phillips Brooks divinity men christ How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in. Phillips Brooks blessing heart heaven 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 literature life world Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. Phillips Brooks admiration losing enthusiasm I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do. Phillips Brooks christian men jesus Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks tasks praying prayer Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness. Phillips Brooks stronger prayer men We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once. Phillips Brooks liberty love men Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace. Phillips Brooks prayer beautiful giving Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings. Phillips Brooks praying prayer wings You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle. Phillips Brooks strength strong struggle Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children. Phillips Brooks confidence god children O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! Phillips Brooks easter flower grace It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can. Phillips Brooks pride self tree Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. Phillips Brooks made character long Up and down our lives obedient Phillips Brooks garden easter done It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us. Phillips Brooks blessed blessing thinking No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do. Phillips Brooks pain christian life Christ will rise on Easter day! Phillips Brooks easter-day easter christ Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself. Phillips Brooks being-yourself patterns
