Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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
Keeps
Use
Nature
Best
Everything
More quotes by Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Phillips Brooks
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
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
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
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
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
Phillips Brooks
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Phillips Brooks
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anger is self-immolation.
Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks