The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.
Phillips BrooksIt is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
Phillips BrooksFor the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Phillips BrooksThe great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
Phillips BrooksOnly the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks