Recent Quotes by Phillips Brooks

O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light. The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary And gathered all above While mortals sleepthe angels keep Their watch of wond?ring love. O morning stars together Proclaim the holy birth And praises sing to God the King And peace to men on earth. How silently how silently The wondrous gift is giv?n! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heav?n. No ear may hear his coming; But in this world of sin Where meek souls will receive him still The dear Christ enters in.

A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Life comes before literature as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

The best advisers helpers and friends always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases but who give us out of themselves the ardent spirit and desire to act right and leave us then even through many blunders to find out what our own form of right action is.