Quote

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Phillips Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Masters
Small
Child
Cottage
Christ
Cottages
Comes
Palace
Children
Palaces
Great
Christmas
Master

More quotes by Phillips Brooks

Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
Phillips Brooks
Image
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing full red blood in the body full honesty and truth in the mind and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
Preaching is truth through personality.
Phillips Brooks