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Phillips Brooks
Profession : Clergyman
Birth : December 13, 1835
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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
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
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
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
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Phillips Brooks
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
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
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