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I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

Phillips Brooks

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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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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing full red blood in the body full honesty and truth in the mind and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
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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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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
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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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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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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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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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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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Anger is self-immolation.
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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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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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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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You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
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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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