The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Phillips Brooks

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From East to West, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.— filed under Easter
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.— filed under Easter
He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.— filed under God
Seriousness of Life. 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.— filed under God
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