We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
Phillips BrooksTo 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 BrooksThose 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 BrooksCall your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.
Phillips BrooksNo man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.
Phillips Brooks