All Phillips Brooks Quotes
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
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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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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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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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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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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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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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