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. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. Phillips Brooks independence independent courage Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. Phillips Brooks eye heaven firsts The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. Phillips Brooks courses growing men Joy in one's work is the consummate tool. Phillips Brooks tools joy Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him. Phillips Brooks vacation sea thinking There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them. Phillips Brooks delight forever hands Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phillips Brooks greatness names life The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. Phillips Brooks friends sacred two Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. Phillips Brooks infinite trouble comfort 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. Phillips Brooks argument scripture conviction The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth. Phillips Brooks righteousness thorough spirit Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature. Phillips Brooks eye law world 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 body soul world 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 fields feet may There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. Phillips Brooks achievement limits He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited. Phillips Brooks mistake order thinking To find his place and fill it is success for a man. Phillips Brooks men O, do not pray for easy lives. Phillips Brooks being-strong stay-strong strength There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety? Phillips Brooks safety two country The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. Phillips Brooks optimism essentials men
