Phillips Brooks
Let 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.'Collection: Easter
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.Collection: Life
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.Collection: Forgiveness
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.Collection: Inspirational
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Wisdom
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.Collection: Power
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.Collection: Religion
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Good
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.Collection: Sad
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.Collection: Great
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.Collection: Home
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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.
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
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.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
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.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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.Collection: Life
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.Collection: Prayer
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 the child of God.Collection: Life
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.Collection: Life Is Too Short
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.Collection: Spiritual
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.Collection: Prayer
Character - Some day, 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.Collection: Life
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.Collection: Unbearable
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.Collection: Believe
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.Collection: Sin
It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.Collection: Blessed
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.Collection: Letting Go
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.Collection: Trouble
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.Collection: Prayer
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.Collection: Bible
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.Collection: Grief