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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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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.
— Phillips Brooks
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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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.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything.
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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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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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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
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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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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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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.
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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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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
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Preaching is truth through personality.
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Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
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O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own. — Phillips Brooks
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own. — Phillips Brooks
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
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The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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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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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
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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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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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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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Anger is self-immolation.
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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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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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.
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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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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
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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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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
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O, do not pray for easy lives ...
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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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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
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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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0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
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No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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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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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
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The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
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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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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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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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Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
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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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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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