Phillips Brooks Quotes

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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 you by the grace of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Men, Miracle

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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 not for crutches but for wings.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Wings

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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• Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

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  Life, Thinking, Men

  "Addresses".

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• 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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  Life Is Too Short, Nurse, Mountain

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• 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, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

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  Spiritual, Men, People

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

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  Prayer, Men, Stronger

  "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

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• No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

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  Unbearable, Tomorrow, Burden

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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 a steady, long-continued process.

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  Life, Real, Struggle

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• The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

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  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

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  Sin, Behavior, Knowing God

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• It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

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  Blessed, Blessing, Thinking

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.18

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• You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

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  Letting Go, Past, Way

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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

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  Trouble

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• Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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  Prayer, Lying, Gods Will

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• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

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  Inspirational, Being Strong, Prayer

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• Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

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  Commitment, Made

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

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  Bible, Jesus, Biblical

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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  Forgiveness, Faults, Bears

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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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  Life, Power, Men

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• We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

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  Grief, Our Love, Want

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• If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Prayer

  Phillips Brooks, Henry Drummond (189?). “Addresses”

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• When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

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  Over You, Half, Other Half

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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. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

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  Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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