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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.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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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 man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
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It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
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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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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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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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Preaching is truth through personality.
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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
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Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
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