Quotes by Phillips Brooks

About Phillips Brooks:

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Phillips Brooks

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 a...

Phillips Brooks

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

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

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.

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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.

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks

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

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

Phillips Brooks

Author Bio

  • NamePhillips Brooks
  • DescriptionAmerican clergyman and author
  • BornDecember 13, 1835
  • DiedJanuary 23, 1893
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPriest; Author