Phillips Brooks Quotes

American - Clergyman | December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.'

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

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

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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.

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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.

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