Quote

Anger is self-immolation.

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
Immolation
Anger
Self

More quotes by Phillips Brooks

Image
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
Image
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
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
Image
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Phillips Brooks
Image
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.
Phillips Brooks
Image
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
Phillips Brooks
Image
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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
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
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
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Image
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
Phillips Brooks
Image
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
Image
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks