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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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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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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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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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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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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
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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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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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