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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

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Heaven, Doe, Holiness

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons preached in English churches, and other sermons”

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He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

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Mistake, Thinking, Order

Phillips Brooks (1895). “Addresses”

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The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.

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Fall, Light, Missing

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To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

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Soul, World, Body

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

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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

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Christmas, Xmas, Earth

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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

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Pride, Self, Tree

"Lectures on Preaching, Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College in January and February, 1877".

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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

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Life, Christian, Pain

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

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God, Confidence, Children

"Sermons".

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Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

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Eye, Law, World

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O, do not pray for easy lives.

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Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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

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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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Use, Best Nature

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

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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

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Easter, Forever, May

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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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Country, Would Be, Poverty

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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.

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Life, Neighbor, Satisfied

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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

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Men

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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

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Joy, Tools

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

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The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

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Stars, Heaven, Earth

Phillips Brooks (1890). “The Light of the World: And Other Sermons”

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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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Work, Effort, Sportsmanship

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Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

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Talking, Soul, Trying

Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

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Beautiful, God, Voice

Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.115, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

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Change, God, Opinion

"The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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Men, Self, Giving

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

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Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

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Enthusiasm, Losing, Admiration

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There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

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Hands, Forever, Delight

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 415, 1895.

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There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

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Country, Two, Safety

Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.182, Cosimo, Inc.

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Born: December 13, 1835
Died: January 23, 1893
Occupation: Clergyman
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