Phillips Brooks quotes - page 3

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. (Phillips Brooks)
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. View quote
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It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us. View quote
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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. View quote
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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without. View quote
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You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle. View quote
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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. View quote
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We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to. View quote
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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us. (Phillips Brooks)
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty. View quote
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Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors. View quote
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Very stange 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. View quote
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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do. View quote
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