Phillips Brooks

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

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.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

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

To keep clear of concealment to keep clear of the need of concealment to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

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.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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

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.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.