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"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward." — Phillip Brooks
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"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there." — Phillip Brooks
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"It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men" — Phillip Brooks
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"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden" — Phillip Brooks
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"Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something lar" — Phillip Brooks
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"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." — Phillip Brooks
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"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours." — Phillip Brooks
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"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything." — Phillip Brooks
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." — Phillip Brooks
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"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words." — Phillip Brooks
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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." — Phillip Brooks
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"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." — Phillip Brooks
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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." — Phillip Brooks
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"Happiness is the natural flower of duty." — Phillip Brooks
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"O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by" — Phillip Brooks
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"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do." — Phillip Brooks
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"I just realized it was $3. I'd heard that, but I wasn't sure it would happen. It was quite a shock. It's beginning to sting." — Phillip Brooks
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"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity" — Phillip Brooks
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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." — Phillip Brooks
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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." — Phillip Brooks
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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." — Phillip Brooks
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