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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.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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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Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
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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 place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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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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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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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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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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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
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Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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There are two ways of defending a castle one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
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