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• Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

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  Courage, Independent, Independence

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

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  Dark, Hands, Praying

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

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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  God, Prayer, Wish

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

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• 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.

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  Children, Giving, Humanity

  Phillips Brooks (1896). “Good Cheer for a Year: Selections”

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• 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.

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  Christmas, Song, Xmas

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• It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

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  Children, Father, Men

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

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  Friday, Real, Lying

  "Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full and in Brief, Suggestive Thoughts, and Poetry, Relating to Holy Days and Holidays". Book by Edward Mark Deems (p. 150), 1902.

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• There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

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  Life, Humble, Light

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

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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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  Future, Quality, Strange

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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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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  Faith, Demand, Obedience

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.72

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

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  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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• No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

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  Life, God, Greatness

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Vacation, Sea

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Seeking life, and other sermons”

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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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  Men, Growing, Courses

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The purpose and use of comfort, and other sermons”

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• Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• 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.

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  Real, Humility, Humble

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

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  Life, Philosophy, Men

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

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

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  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

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  Men, Divinity, Christ

  "The Light of the World: And Other Sermons".

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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.

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  Strength, Strong, Struggle

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• Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

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  Scripture, Argument, Conviction

  Phillips Brooks (1964). “On Preaching”

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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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  Friends, Two, Sacred

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

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

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  Character, Gun, Battle

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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