Phillips Brooks

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

“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.”

“Dreadful 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.”

“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.”

“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”

“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.”

“It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.”

“A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.”

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.”

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