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Letter "P" » Phillips Brooks Quotes
«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.»
«I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.»
«Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
| Keywords:
As god, narrowness, petty, privilege, realization, self confidence
«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.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
| Keywords:
broadly, creed, every week, revelation, Revelation of
«Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.»
«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.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
«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.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
«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.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
«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.»
Author: Phillips Brooks
(Clergyman)
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