Phillips Brooks Quotes

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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 conquered sin. That…
• So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to…
• 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…
• O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
• The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are…
• Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
• 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,…
• 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…
• The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
• There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust…
• Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
• 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…
• No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought…
• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to…
• No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

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