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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.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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Newton's great generalization, which he called the third law of motion, was that Action and reaction are always equal to each other and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
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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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Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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