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If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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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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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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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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