29 Quotations by Phillips Brooks
- 1. A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- 2. A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
- 3. As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
- 4. Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, w ...
- 5. Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
- 6. Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad ...
- 7. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- 8. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra ...
- 9. Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
- 10. He who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given... in any other ...
- 11. I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
- 12. Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
- 13. No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which ...
- 14. No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which ...
- 15. No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit ...
- 16. No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being ...
- 17. No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl ...
- 18. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
- 19. Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr ...
- 20. Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eye ...
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