Phillips Brooks Quotes:
Ocupation: Clergyman
Life: December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893
Birthday: December 13
Death: January 23
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."
source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”
topic: Children, Father, Men, Great Garden
