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Phillips Brooks Quotes

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #1

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #2

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

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #3

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. -- Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #4

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. -- Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #5

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

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #6

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. -- Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #7

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. 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 that he was meant and made to do. -- Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #8

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

Phillips Brooks -- Quote #9

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

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