Phillips Brooks Quotes

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

Patience, Life, Short

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

Power, Silence, Words

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

Great, Character, May

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks

Nature, Yourself, True

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Inspirational, Happiness, Flower

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks

Christmas, Music, Heart

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

Music, Face, Tune

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

Power, Equal, Pray

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

Wish, Prayer, Definition

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks

Others, Bear, Faults

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

Home, Stay, Charity

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks

Life, God, Live

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Phillips Brooks

Life, Great, Whole

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks

Good, Strong, Someone

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks

Sad, Great, Thinking

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
Phillips Brooks

Change, Week, Opinions

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Phillips Brooks

Men, Easy, Lives

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks

Stronger, Pray, Load

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks

Humanity, Jesus, Christ

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks

Life, Work, Before

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

Yourself, Made, Earnestly

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Phillips Brooks

Best, Help, May

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

Life, Everything, Cannot

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

Forget, Others, Forgive

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

Great, Men, Takes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: December 13, 1835

Died: 1893

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