Phillips Brooks Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Happiness, Happy, Flower

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Confidence, Children

  "Sermons".

• Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Love, Inspirational, Children

• Up and down our lives obedient
  Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant,
  Till those garden lives shall be
  Fair with duties done for Thee;
  And our thankful spirits say,
  "Christ arose on Easter Day."

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Garden, Done

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

• Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

  Phillips Brooks

  Comfort, Trouble, Infinite

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

• Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, Prayer, Giving

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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