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

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

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

— Phillips Brooks

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

— Phillips Brooks

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

— Phillips Brooks

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

— Phillips Brooks

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it is always young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

— Phillips Brooks

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

— Phillips Brooks

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

— Phillips Brooks

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

— Phillips Brooks