Phillips Brooks Quotations

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Christ will rise on Easter day!

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.