Phillips Brooks Quotes

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean?

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.