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• The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

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  Faith, Demand, Obedience

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.72

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

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  Achievement, Limits

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• 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 the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

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  Life, Honesty, Grateful

  Phillips Brooks, Thomas F. Chilcote (1954). “The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr”

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• Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

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  Life, Easter, Strong

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

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  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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• No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

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  Life, God, Greatness

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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  God, Prayer, Wish

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

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• The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

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  Friends, Two, Sacred

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

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• The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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  Men, Growing, Courses

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The purpose and use of comfort, and other sermons”

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• Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

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  Children, Giving, Humanity

  Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

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• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

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  Real, Humility, Humble

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Patterns

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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• Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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  Mean, Purpose, Might

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

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• The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

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  Men, Divinity, Christ

  "The Light of the World: And Other Sermons".

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

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

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

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  Beautiful, Prayer, Giving

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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• 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 all the beauty of the sea around him.

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  Thinking, Vacation, Sea

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

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• No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

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  Christian, Men, Preaching

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Anger is self-immolation.

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  Anger, Self

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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 the present.

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  Future, Quality, Strange

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

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• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

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  Strength, Strong, Struggle

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• As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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

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• We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

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  Life, Hope, Possibility

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