Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks Read Quote
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, ‘Christ is risen,’ but ‘I shall rise.’ Phillips Brooks Read Quote
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks Read 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 Read Quote
To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. Phillips Brooks Read Quote
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it… you cannot do everything. Phillips Brooks Read Quote
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks Read Quote
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. Phillips Brooks Read Quote