Phillips Brooks Quotes

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
• 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…
• A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
• 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…
• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
• Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -…
• Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
• Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
• It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
• 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…
• The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
• Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in…
• Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It…
• Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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