Quotes of Phillips Brooks - somelinesforyou

“ 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 the miracle. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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 the miracle. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

“ Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”

- Phillips Brooks
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