Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
Phillips Brooks
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Within
Live
Without
Begun
Men
Begins
Life
Seriously
Simply
Philosophy
Economy
More quotes by Phillips Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
Phillips Brooks
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
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
Phillips Brooks
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
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
Phillips Brooks
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
Phillips Brooks
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks
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
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
Phillips Brooks
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
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
Phillips Brooks
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Phillips Brooks
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
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
Phillips Brooks