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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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Boston
Massachusetts
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More quotes by Phillips Brooks
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
Phillips Brooks
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
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
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
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
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
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
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
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
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
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
Phillips Brooks
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
Phillips Brooks
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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
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
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
Phillips Brooks
