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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.

Phillips Brooks

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
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Boston
Massachusetts
Life
Truth
Fullness
Body
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Work
Grateful
Every
Praying
Mind
Blood
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Saviour

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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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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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Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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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If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
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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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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
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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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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
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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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