Author: Phillips Brooks

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Phillips Brooks

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

- Phillips Brooks

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

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

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

- 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.

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

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