Phillips Brooks
Clergyman
1835-12-13
Quotes by Phillips Brooks
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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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.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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A Farewell to Some of My Christian Friends at Goshen, Lebanon You ask what you can do? You can furnish one Christian life.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. Bad 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, and with the deeds that he is doing.
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Greatness, after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong but life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and hope triumphant say, Christ will rise on Easter Day!
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