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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Achievement
None
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Necessary
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Attempt

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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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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
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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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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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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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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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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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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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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.
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Preaching is truth through personality.
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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
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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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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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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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