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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
Clergyman
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Boston
Massachusetts
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To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple for it belongs not to this earth alone.
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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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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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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 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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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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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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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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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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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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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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