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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Character
Children
Love
Christianity
Duty
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Child
Inspirational
Truth

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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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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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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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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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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 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.
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Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing full red blood in the body full honesty and truth in the mind and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
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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.
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