Phillips Brooks Quotes

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• Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in…
• If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
• Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
• For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
• We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
• Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and…
• There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some…
• Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
• Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to…
• Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the…
• Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is…
• Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle…
• No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him,…
• 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…
• Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
• VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
• The only real way to prepare to meet thy God is to live with thy God, so that to meet him shall be nothing strange.
• It is good to come to a future which you do not know. It is good if God brings you to the borders of some…

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