Quote

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

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
Hurry
Trouble

More quotes by 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
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
Image
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
Phillips Brooks
Image
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
Anger is self-immolation.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
Image
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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
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
Image
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
Phillips Brooks
Image
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
Phillips Brooks