Phillips Brooks Quotes

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before u...

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wis...

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pra...

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out h...

Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark ...

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your ...

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent...

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinite...

Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray f...

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort...

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living w...

To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might ...

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pra...

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.