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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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There are two ways of defending a castle one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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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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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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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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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Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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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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