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Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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