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Preaching is truth through personality.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Preaching
Personality
Truth

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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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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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If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
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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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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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The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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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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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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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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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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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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