Phillips Brooks Quotes

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

Christ died for the truth.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

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.'

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.