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Phillips Brooks
Life comes before...
Life comes before literature, as the material comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world...
A man who...
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his...
It is while...
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of...
The best advisors...
The best advisors . . . give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even...
Be such a...
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...
Charity should begin...
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Source: In
A prayer in...
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Source: In
Call your opinions...
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the...
The ideal life...
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented...
To say, well...
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...
O little town...
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go...
Self-confidence is either...
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's...
Character may be...
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Do not pray...
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal...
No man has...
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,...