To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
Phillips BrooksThe 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 BrooksIt is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips BrooksThe Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.
Phillips Brooks