Phillips Brooks Famous Quotes
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
"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."
"The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."
"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 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. 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."
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
"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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."
Phillips Brooks Quotations
Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
Barbara Hall
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it."
Anonymous
"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory."
Truman Capote
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
Bob Dylan
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
What's meant to be will always find a way.
Trisha Yearwood
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Aristotle
"What you give you get, ten times over."
Yoruba Proverb