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
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — 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
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men,… — 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
