Phillips Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

“Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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