No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

- Phillips Brooks

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

- Phillips Brooks

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will …

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Phillips Brooks

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches b…

- Phillips Brooks

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

- Phillips Brooks

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is he…

- Phillips Brooks

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not …

- 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…

- Phillips Brooks