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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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Christian, Prayer

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

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• Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspiring, Christian, Appreciation

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• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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  Happiness, Happy, Flower

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Stronger

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

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

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  Christmas, Song, Xmas

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• It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

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  Men, Doe, Great Men

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• 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 be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

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  Dark, Hands, Praying

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

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• 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 tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

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  Fighting, Winning, Live Your Life

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

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• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

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  Tunes, Faces, Helping

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• 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.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

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  Life, Men, Would Be

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• It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

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  Life, Dawn, Tasks

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• Obedience completes itself in understanding.

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  Understanding, Obedience

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Humanity

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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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• 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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• The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

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  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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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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  Christmas, Xmas, Joy

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

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  Children, Father, Men

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

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

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  Friday, Real, Lying

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

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  Christmas, Children, Cottages

  Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”

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• To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

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  Believe, Would Be, Belief

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

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  Life, Pain, Opportunity

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

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  Courage, Independent, Independence

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• 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 of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

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  Life, Humble, Light

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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