Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. — 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
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
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
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
