Phillips Brooks

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

"The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young."

- Phillips Brooks

"We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion."

- Phillips Brooks

"O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!"

- Phillips Brooks

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

- Phillips Brooks

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

- Phillips Brooks

"Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'"

- Phillips Brooks

"“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.”"

- Phillips Brooks

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."

- Phillips Brooks

"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."

- Phillips Brooks

"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."

- Phillips Brooks