"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely……" — Phillips Brooks
"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward."
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Phillips Brooks
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102 Quotes by Phillips Brooks
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of…
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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More Definition Quotes
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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