Phillips Brooks God Quotations

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.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

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