Phillips Brooks Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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They say the doctors and the nurses are least likely to catch the epidemic. If you have a friend who is dishonest or impure, the surest way to save yourself from him is to try to save him.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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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.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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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.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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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.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
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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.'
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.