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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.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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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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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
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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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O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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