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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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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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 essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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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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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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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 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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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
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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 feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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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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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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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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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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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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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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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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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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