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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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More quotes by Phillips Brooks
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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Preaching is truth through personality.
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Phillips Brooks
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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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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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks
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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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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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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Newton's great generalization, which he called the third law of motion, was that Action and reaction are always equal to each other and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
Phillips Brooks
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.
Phillips Brooks
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
