Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
Phillips BrooksNever fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
Phillips BrooksThe faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
Phillips BrooksA man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips BrooksGet up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
Phillips BrooksSad 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 the child of God.
Phillips Brooks