Phillips Brooks Quotes

• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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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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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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• 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.

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• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

  Phillips Brooks

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Birth:	13th December, 1835
Death:	23rd January, 1893
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Clergyman

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