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Phillips Brooks Inspirational Quotes (73)

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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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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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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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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.
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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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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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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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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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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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There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.
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Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
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Preaching is truth through personality.
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Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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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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