Phillips Brooks Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Phillips Brooks

• 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.

  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

• Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

  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.

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• 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.

  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

• 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

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

  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.

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

  Phillips Brooks

• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger 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

• It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

  Phillips Brooks

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

  Phillips Brooks

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

  Phillips Brooks

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

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Phillips Brooks (31)

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

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