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Phillips Brooks quotes

American Clergyman December 13, 1835

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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. Phillips Brooks
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. Phillips Brooks
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. 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
Phillips Brooks quote: "Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every..."
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Phillips Brooks
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. Phillips Brooks
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. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his..."
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of..."
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like..."
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is..."
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers..."
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes..."
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned..."
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks quote: "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Phillips Brooks

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