All Phillips Brooks Quotes
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.
Phillips Brooks
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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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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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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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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.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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