Phillips Brooks Quotes - Page 2

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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, Power, Men

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• Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

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  Christmas, Xmas, Joy

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

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  Christian, Men, Preaching

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

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  Life, Easter, Strong

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Anger is self-immolation.

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  Anger, Self

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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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  Cheerful, New Life, Deeds

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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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  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Giving, Advice

  Phillips Brooks (1890). “Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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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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  Christmas, Children, Cottages

  Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”

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• Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

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  Life, Honesty, Grateful

  Phillips Brooks, Thomas F. Chilcote (1954). “The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr”

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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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  Believe, Would Be, Belief

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

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  Achievement, Limits

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• Obedience completes itself in understanding.

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  Understanding, Obedience

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Patterns

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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

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  Mean, Purpose, Might

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• 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.

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  Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• 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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  Easter, Strong, Dark

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

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  Tunes, Faces, Helping

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• Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

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  Fighting, Winning, Live Your Life

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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  Christian, Jesus, Humanity

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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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  Over You, Half, Other Half

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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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  Grief, Our Love, Want

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• The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

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  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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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.

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  Life, Men, Would Be

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• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

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  Life, Pain, Opportunity

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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