Life Quotes by Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...

— Phillips Brooks

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

— Phillips Brooks

Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.

— Phillips Brooks

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is…

— Phillips Brooks

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

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to…

— Phillips Brooks

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

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be…

— Phillips Brooks

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life…

— Phillips Brooks

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

— Phillips Brooks

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God…

— Phillips Brooks

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps…

— Phillips Brooks

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in…

— Phillips Brooks

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

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray…

— Phillips Brooks

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that…

— Phillips Brooks

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in…

— Phillips Brooks

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!…

— Phillips Brooks

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope…

— Phillips Brooks

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when…

— Phillips Brooks

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But…

— Phillips Brooks

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

“Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your…

— Phillips Brooks

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid…

— Phillips Brooks

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the…

— Phillips Brooks

“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

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all…

— Phillips Brooks

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

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

— Phillips Brooks

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

— Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and…

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms…

— Phillips Brooks

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch…

— Phillips Brooks

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

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for…

— Phillips Brooks

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage…

— Phillips Brooks