Phillips Brooks Quotes

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

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks