Phillips Brooks Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friendship, Giving, Advice

  Phillips Brooks (1890). “Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

• No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, God, Greatness

• It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Father, Men

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

• Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Giving, Humanity

  Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

• Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Self, Giving

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

• 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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