Phillips Brooks Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Prayer, Wish

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

  Phillips Brooks

  Change, God, Opinion

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

• 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

• 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".

• It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

  Phillips Brooks

  Beautiful, God, Voice

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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