Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks

"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
34 Quotes
"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
Phillips Brooks
"It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men."
Phillips Brooks
"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 on you."
Phillips Brooks
"Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it."
Phillips Brooks
"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do."
Phillips Brooks
"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."
Phillips Brooks
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
Phillips Brooks
"To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge."
Phillips Brooks
"Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise."
Phillips Brooks
"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."
Phillips Brooks
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
Phillips Brooks
"No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
Phillips Brooks
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
Phillips Brooks
"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."
Phillips Brooks
"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 higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
Phillips Brooks
"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 fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
Phillips Brooks
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still."
Phillips Brooks
"To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can."
Phillips Brooks
"Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present."
Phillips Brooks
"Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger."
Phillips Brooks
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