Phillips Brooks Quotes

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Phillips Brooks

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : December 13, 1835

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

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

Phillips Brooks

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Phillips Brooks

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

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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.

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks