Phillips Brooks Quotes & Quotations

Phillips Brooks Quotes

» The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

» 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.

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

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

» Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

» 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.

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

» 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 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.

» Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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