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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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
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Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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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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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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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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Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
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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.
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We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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Preaching is truth through personality.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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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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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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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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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 essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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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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