Words matter. These are the best Phillips Brooks Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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.
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it… you cannot do everything.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
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.’
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 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.
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.
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.
