Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
Phillips BrooksNo one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
Phillips BrooksSelf-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 BrooksWe never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
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