Death Quote by Phillips Brooks

“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.”

Phillips Brooks

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

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

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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 for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to…

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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 our loyalty…

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

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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,…

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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 failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel that life has no meaning at all--not these things. The danger is that we may…

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

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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 the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by…

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