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~ Phillips Brooks Quotes ~
« on: July 27, 2015, 05:13:52 PM »
Phillips Brooks Quotes


An American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s.
Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23.

Here are some famous quotes by Phillips Brooks.




Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2015, 05:14:26 PM »
Charity should begin at home but should not stay there.
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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2015, 05:14:52 PM »
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2015, 05:15:22 PM »
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2015, 05:15:46 PM »
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 05:16:14 PM »
As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 05:16:45 PM »
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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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 05:17:13 PM »
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.
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2015, 05:17:41 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2015, 05:18:17 PM »
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2015, 05:18:56 PM »
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2015, 05:19:25 PM »
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.
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