The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father’s will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ’s sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

It 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 Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

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

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

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

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Character – Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Phillips Brooks (Clergyman, 1835 – 1893)