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Phillips Brooks quotes: Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
Phillips Brooks quotes: It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
Phillips Brooks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks quotes: It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us. It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
Phillips Brooks quotes: As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything. As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks quotes: You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Phillips Brooks quotes: To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
Phillips Brooks quotes: I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Death is strong, but Life is stronger ... Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
Phillips Brooks quotes: The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
Phillips Brooks quotes: While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
Phillips Brooks quotes: We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life. Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
Phillips Brooks quotes: For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Phillips Brooks quotes: When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it. When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Preaching is truth through personality. Preaching is truth through personality.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
Phillips Brooks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Joy in one's work is the consummate tool. Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot. The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
Phillips Brooks quotes: O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own. O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself. Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Phillips Brooks quotes: To find his place and fill it is success for a man. To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
Phillips Brooks quotes: A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present. Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks quotes: It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Phillips Brooks quotes: A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Christ will rise on Easter day! Christ will rise on Easter day!
Phillips Brooks quotes: Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. 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 quotes: Anger is self-immolation. Anger is self-immolation.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
Phillips Brooks quotes: We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God. Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
Phillips Brooks quotes: If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven. Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks. Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
Phillips Brooks quotes: O, do not pray for easy lives ... O, do not pray for easy lives ...
Phillips Brooks quotes: The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Obedience completes itself in understanding. Obedience completes itself in understanding.
Phillips Brooks quotes: No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
Phillips Brooks quotes: 0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
Phillips Brooks quotes: No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable. No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
Phillips Brooks quotes: There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
Phillips Brooks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks quotes: It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings. Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't. The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
Phillips Brooks quotes: The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks quotes: We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Phillips Brooks quotes: Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks quotes: If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
Phillips Brooks quotes: Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops. Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
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. 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 quotes: Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
Phillips Brooks quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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