Phillips Brooks Quotes - Page 6

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• Christ will rise on Easter day!

  Phillips Brooks

  Easter, Christ, Easter Day

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

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  Angel, Sleep, Watches

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

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  Wall, Fire, Soul

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

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• O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
  How dear Thy Grace has grown!
  From east to west, with loving power,
  Make all the world Thine own.

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  Easter, Flower, Grace

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• Preaching is truth through personality.

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  Personality, Preaching

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• Up and down our lives obedient
  Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant,
  Till those garden lives shall be
  Fair with duties done for Thee;
  And our thankful spirits say,
  "Christ arose on Easter Day."

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  Easter, Garden, Done

  Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

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• The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

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  Spirit, Thorough, Righteousness

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.51

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• The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

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  Feet, May, Fields

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• Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

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  Love, Inspirational, Children

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• The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

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  Men, Touching, Christ

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

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• There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.

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  Trust, Differences, Sorrow

  "Good Cheer for a Year: Selections".

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• The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

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  Men, Optimism, Essentials

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• Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

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  Character, Long, Made

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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