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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 anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

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  Love, Men, Liberty

  Phillips Brooks (1888). “Lectures on Preaching: Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877”

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• Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

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  Life, Literature, World

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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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 to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.

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  Loyalty, Friday, Light

  Homiletic Review: An International Magazine of Religion, Theology and Philosophy, Religious Newspaper Agency (p. 322), 1896.

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• Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

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  Comfort, Trouble, Infinite

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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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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• Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

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  Christmas, Dark, Night

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• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

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  Fog, Opinion, Week

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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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, that he may be able to bear the burden.

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  Men, May, Able

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

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  Character, Gun, Battle

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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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.

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  Friday, Light, Darkness

  "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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• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

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  Blood, Life Is, Ideal Life

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.35

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• Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

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  Life, Greatness, Names

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.14

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• Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

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  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

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  Life And Death, Want, Helping

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

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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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  Loyalty, Flower, Men

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

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• O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

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  Christmas, Stars, Lying

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

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  Fire, Special, Genius

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

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• Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

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  Men, Society, Doe

  Phillips Brooks (1870). “The Influence of Jesus”, p.98

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• Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

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  Soul, Way, Pillars

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

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• Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

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  Prayer, Wings, Praying

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• The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

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  Secret, Wickedness, May

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• Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

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  Shadow, Devotion, Used

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• Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

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  Eye, Heaven, Firsts

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.70

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