Phillips Brooks Quotes

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.