Phillips Brooks Quotes

Do not pray for easy lives.Pray to be stronger men.Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

~ Phillips Brooks

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

~ Phillips Brooks

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

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

~ 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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

~ Phillips Brooks

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Phillips Brooks

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

~ 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

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

~ Phillips Brooks

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

~ Phillips Brooks

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.'

~ Phillips Brooks

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

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

~ Phillips Brooks

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

~ Phillips Brooks

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

~ 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

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

~ Phillips Brooks