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Phillips Brooks Quotes

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings Picture Quote #1

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks Picture Quote #1

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle Picture Quote #1

Tomb, thou shalt not hold him longer; death is strong, but life is stronger; stronger than the dark, the light; stronger than the wrong, the right; faith and hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter day Picture Quote #1

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything Picture Quote #1

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again Picture Quote #1

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to Picture Quote #1

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings (Phillips Brooks Quotes) If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Tomb, thou shalt not hold him longer; death is strong, but life is stronger; stronger than the dark, the light; stronger than the wrong, the right; faith and hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter day (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes) It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again (Phillips Brooks Quotes) If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to (Phillips Brooks Quotes) Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might (Phillips Brooks Quotes) 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 (Phillips Brooks Quotes)

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