Phillips Brooks Short Quotes

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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

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No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

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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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Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

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The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

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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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Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

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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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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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O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth!
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth.

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To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

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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 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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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

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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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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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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

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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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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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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.

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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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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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We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

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