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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.

Phillips Brooks

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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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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O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
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To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple for it belongs not to this earth alone.
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The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.
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