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Christ will rise on Easter day!
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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Boston
Massachusetts
Easter
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
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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 trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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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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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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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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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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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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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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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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So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.
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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
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Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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