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Phillips Brooks

(1835–1893) Writer United States

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Phillips Brooks was a writer from the United States, best known for Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks.

Quick Facts About Phillips Brooks

Born: December 13, 1835
Died: January 23, 1893
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks

About Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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Christian inspirational

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Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

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Charity

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Preaching is truth through personality.

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Personality

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Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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Gods will

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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

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Flower

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O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray…

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Easy

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So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by…

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Crucifixion

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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

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Funny

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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…

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Able

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“The danger facing all of us--let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously--is not that we shall make an absolute…

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Danger

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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

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Achievement

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

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Character

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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

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Conditions

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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

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Men

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It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in…

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Children

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is…

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Conquer

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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…

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Dawn

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Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till…

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Eye

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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid…

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Can do

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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

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Doe

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Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow…

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Candle

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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

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Commitment

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“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will…

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Children

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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness…

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Afternoon

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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with…

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Belief

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Phillips Brooks by topic

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