Phillips Brooks Quotes

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.