Phillips Brooks Quotes
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
Citations
Brooks, Phillips. Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts of the Church Year. E. P. Dutton & Company, 1895, p. 288.
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Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".