WIST Quotations

Brooks, Phillips -- “Destruction and Fulfilment,” Sermon 12, Twenty Sermons, 4th Series (1887)

Dave — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:17:45 +0000

Do not be chary of appreciation. Hearts are unconsciously hungry for it.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
“Destruction and Fulfilment,” Sermon 12, Twenty Sermons, 4th Series (1887)
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Sermon on Matt. 17.

Brooks, Phillips -- “Going Up to Jerusalem,” Selected Sermons [ed. William Scarlett (1949)]

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
“Going Up to Jerusalem,” Selected Sermons [ed. William Scarlett (1949)]

Brooks, Phillips -- “Unspotted from the World,” sermon

Dave — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:25:32 +0000

When a man comes not merely to tolerate, but to boast of the stains that the world has flung upon him; when he wears his spots as if they were jewels; when he flaunts his unscrupulousness, and his cynicism and his disbelief and his hard-heartedness in your face as the signs and badges of his superiority; when to be innocent and unsuspicious and sensitive seems to be ridiculous and weak; when it is reputable to show that we are men of the world by exhibiting the stains that the world has left upon our reputation, our conduct, and our heart, then we understand how flagrant is the danger; then we see how hard it must be to keep ourselves unspotted from the world.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
“Unspotted from the World,” sermon
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Brooks, Phillips -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
(Attributed)

Brooks, Phillips -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
(Attributed)

Brooks, Phillips -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:39:41 +0000

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
(Attributed)
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Quoted in Life and Light for Woman, Vol. 26, #1 (Jan 1896)

Brooks, Phillips -- Daily Thoughts from Phillips Brooks (1893)

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:53:16 +0000

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
Daily Thoughts from Phillips Brooks (1893)

Brooks, Phillips -- Sermons, “Christmas Day” (1910)

Dave — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:31:30 +0000

Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
Sermons, “Christmas Day” (1910)
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Full quote: "It is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both by giving you abundantly the glory of the Incarnation, the peace of Christ's kingship, and the grace of Christ's salvation."

Brooks, Phillips -- Sermons, Vol. 1

Dave — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:51:17 +0000

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American clergyman, hymnist
Sermons, Vol. 1
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