Quotes by Phillip Brooks

“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”

“Christianity helps us face the music even when we dont like the tune.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 Gods Paradise.”

“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.”

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 greatest greatness is.