Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

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The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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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. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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

— Phillips Brooks

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