Phillips Brooks Phillips Brooks, was a noted American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopalian liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23.Brooks was born in more.. more..

“ Phillips Brooks: 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. #Life and Living#Life and Living

“ Phillips Brooks: A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. #Example#Example

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

“ 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. #Prayer#Prayer

“ Phillips Brooks: No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. #Greatness#Greatness

“ Phillips Brooks: No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. #Cooperation#Cooperation

“ 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. #Goodness#Goodness

“ Phillips Brooks:O, 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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. #Prayer#Prayer

“ Phillips Brooks: Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. #Opinions #Opinions

“ Phillips Brooks:For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. #Greatness#Greatness

“ 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. #Praise#Praise

“ Phillips Brooks: The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. #Advice#Advice

“ Phillips Brooks:The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is #Friends and Friendship#Friends and Friendship

“ Phillips Brooks:Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. #Enthusiasm#Enthusiasm

“ Phillips Brooks: I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. #Burdens#Burdens

“ Phillips Brooks:O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. #Corruption#Corruption

“ Phillips Brooks:Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. #Success#Success

“ Phillips Brooks: 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. #Aid and Assistance#Aid and Assistance

“ Phillips Brooks:Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven. #Heaven#Heaven

“ Phillips Brooks: Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. #Confidence#Confidence

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