Phillips Brooks quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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