Phillips Brooks

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

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

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

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.

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.

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.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

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

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