American - Clergyman | December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
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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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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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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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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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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
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