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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.
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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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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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Anger is self-immolation.
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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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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 essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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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 trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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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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