Phillips Brooks Quotes

Most popular Phillips Brooks Quotes

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. - Phillips Brooks quote.
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
— Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. - Phillips Brooks quote.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

prayer

Do not be chary of appreciation.  Hearts are unconsciously hungry for it. - Phillips Brooks quote.
Do not be chary of appreciation.  Hearts are unconsciously hungry for it.
— Phillips Brooks Twenty Sermons

appreciation

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks quote.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
— Phillips Brooks

life character

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. - Phillips Brooks quote.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
— Phillips Brooks

literature creativity

A man who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to the human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again. - Phillips Brooks quote.
A man who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to the human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
— Phillips Brooks
Make a great deal more of your right to praise the good than of your right to blame the bad.  Never let a brave and serious struggle after truth and goodness, however weak it may be, pass unrecognized. - Phillips Brooks quote.
Make a great deal more of your right to praise the good than of your right to blame the bad.  Never let a brave and serious struggle after truth and goodness, however weak it may be, pass unrecognized.
— Phillips Brooks Twenty Sermons

praise Goodness