Phillips Brooks

(389 votes)   The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(127 votes)   Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(85 votes)   Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

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(65 votes)   Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

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(64 votes)   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.

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(64 votes)   Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

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(61 votes)   A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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(59 votes)   Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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(59 votes)   Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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(58 votes)   Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

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(56 votes)   As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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(48 votes)   Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

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(46 votes)   It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

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(42 votes)   Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

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(40 votes)   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.

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