It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. 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 that he was meant and made to do. Phillips Brooks The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man. Phillips Brooks Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Phillips Brooks forgive bear you forgiveness forget 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 man greatness god life 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 and made to do. Phillips Brooks thoughts day man sad 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 be-strong woman good man No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks be-strong woman good man