Phillips Brooks Quotes

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• Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place.…
• We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
• 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…
• Christ will rise on Easter day!
• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
• As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
• The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
• To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless…
• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a…
• Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days,…
• Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
• We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and…
• Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
• Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that…
• The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
• Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must…
• The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full…
• Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

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