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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1023/">Quotes by <em>Brooks, Phillips</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893), was a noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity."

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"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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