Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children. Phillips Brooks More Quotes by Phillips Brooks More Quotes From Phillips Brooks Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks hopemotivationalinspirational 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 would be God's Paradise. Phillips Brooks would-bemenlife Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Phillips Brooks short-lifelife-is-too-shortpatience It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything. Phillips Brooks presumptuouscan-dothinking We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. Phillips Brooks possibilityhopelife Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. Phillips Brooks christmasdarknight We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. Phillips Brooks our-lovegriefwant Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day. Phillips Brooks easterstrongdark To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. Phillips Brooks beliefwould-bebelieve 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 humilityrealhumble Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown. Phillips Brooks live-your-lifefightingwinning Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. Phillips Brooks madecommitment The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him. Phillips Brooks knowingmenbelieve We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Phillips Brooks prayerspiritualchristian Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give. Phillips Brooks selfgivingmen Death is strong, but Life is stronger. Phillips Brooks easterstronglife Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. Phillips Brooks humanitychristianjesus Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks tunesfaceshelping Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged. Phillips Brooks shadowuseddevotion Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. Phillips Brooks societydoemen
