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

Phillips Brooks

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Christianity
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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
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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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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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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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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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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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Anger is self-immolation.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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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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