It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“The danger facing all of us--let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously--is not that we shall make an absolute… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“The danger facing all of us--let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously--is not that we shall make an absolute failure of… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
