Quotes from Phillips Brooks

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.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

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.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

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.

The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

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.

Preaching is truth through personality.

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.