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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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 man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.
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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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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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