Phillips Brooks Quotes

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

He who would pray, must obey.

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

If the leadership asks me to die a martyr, I am ready ... and if they ask me to resign, I am also ready

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I feel called to be faithful.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

I am a believer and a conformist.

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.