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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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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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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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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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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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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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