Short Quotes - Author Phillips Brooks Showing 1 - 31 of 31 Add Quote 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 Music Upvote0 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 Work Upvote0 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. Phillips Brooks Burden Upvote0 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 Nature Upvote0 The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Phillips Brooks Life Upvote0 Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. Phillips Brooks Upvote0 The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. Phillips Brooks Feet Upvote0 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. Phillips Brooks Life Upvote0 Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks Power Upvote0 I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. Phillips Brooks Upvote0 Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks Happiness Upvote0 It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. Phillips Brooks Men Upvote0 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 Life Upvote0 Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. Phillips Brooks Christ Upvote0 Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. Phillips Brooks God Upvote0 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 Being Upvote0 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. Phillips Brooks Life Upvote0 Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks Music Upvote0 Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Phillips Brooks Upvote0 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 Life Upvote0 A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Phillips Brooks Power Upvote0 Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Phillips Brooks Home Upvote0 Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Phillips Brooks Faults Upvote0 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks Character Upvote0 Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Phillips Brooks Change Upvote0 Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Phillips Brooks Faults Upvote0 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 Life Upvote0 Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Phillips Brooks Life Upvote0 As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. Phillips Brooks Life Upvote0 A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. Phillips Brooks Prayer Upvote0 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks Motivational Upvote0