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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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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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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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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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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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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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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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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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Preaching is truth through personality.
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Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
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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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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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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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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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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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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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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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