Author: Phillips Brooks

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

- 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

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.

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

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

- Phillips Brooks

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

- Phillips Brooks

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