Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Heaven does not make holiness but holiness makes heaven because if you do not give yourself in sympathy to goodness goodness cannot give itself in influence to you.

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

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

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

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

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.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

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.'

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviours crucifixion.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing.

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.

We are haunted by an ideal life and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love

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

So shall we join the disciples of our Lord keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion and making ready by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

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

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

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.

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