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Phillips Brooks Quotes
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Clergyman Quotes
Category:
American Clergyman Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 13, 1835
Year of Death:
1893
Nationality:
American
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

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

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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

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

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

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

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

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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

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

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