Phillips Brooks Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

  Phillips Brooks

  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

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

• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Strong, Struggle

• The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

  Phillips Brooks

  Stars, Heaven, Earth

  Phillips Brooks (1890). “The Light of the World: And Other Sermons”

• Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

  Phillips Brooks

  Heaven, Doe, Holiness

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons preached in English churches, and other sermons”

• Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

  Phillips Brooks

  Eye, Heaven, Firsts

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.70

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