Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
Phillips BrooksGo and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.
Phillips BrooksFeed 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 BrooksFor the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Phillips BrooksThere are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.
Phillips Brooks