01c. 1864 ADDreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when 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 because he is a child of God.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
02c. 1864 AD0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
03c. 1864 ADTomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
04c. 1864 ADAs you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
06c. 1864 ADDo 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.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
07c. 1864 ADPrayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
08c. 1864 ADA prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
09c. 1864 ADEverything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
10c. 1864 ADBad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
11c. 1864 ADVery strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
12c. 1864 ADTo keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
14c. 1864 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1864 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1864 ADBe patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
17c. 1864 ADChristianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
18c. 1864 ADNo 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1864 ADDo not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
20c. 1864 ADA man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
21c. 1864 ADLet 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.'Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
22c. 1864 ADTo 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1864 ADCharacter may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
24c. 1864 ADForgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.Phillips Brooks / quote ↗
