Quotes by Phillips Brooks
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Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to ...
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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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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 ...
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of ...
