Phillips Brooks Quotes
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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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.
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
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O little town of Bethlehem,How still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee to-night.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth!And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth.
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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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For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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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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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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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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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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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.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.