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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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There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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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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He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.
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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 solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
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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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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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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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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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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
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Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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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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There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.
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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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